After that, I made the decision to headline no matter what, even if I was playing to seven people. I wanted people to be there to see me.
AL YANKOVICI’m obviously not a rapper, and I don’t have any claims to be one, really.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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It doesn’t take a military genius to see we’ll all be crispy critters after World War III.
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I am not making this up. Needless to say, as soon as I discovered that, I gave up meat entirely.
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I always try to put myself out of my comfort zone and out of my depth, and hopefully somewhere along the line I’ll catch up.
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I don’t really look at myself as the kind of person who craves attention, but I’ve never been to therapy so there’s probably a lot of stuff about myself that I don’t know.
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I tend to enunciate pretty well. It’s always seemed that my voice is one of those voices that people can recognize pretty easily – which has been a bit of a drawback for some characters.
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Then I try to come up with ideas for parodies. And 99% of those ideas are horrible.
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I did have a child, and I was reading a lot of picture books to her, but at the same time writing a children’s book was something that I’d been wanting to do for many years, pretty much since the start of my career.
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I don’t want to hear about this train being derailed! What happened to ‘The Flintstones’?’
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I have very mixed feelings about it. On one hand, I’m concerned that the rampant downloading of my copyright-protected material over the Internet is severely eating into my album sales and having a decidedly adverse effect on my career.
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I’m watching the charts every week and hoping something will pop into my head.
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I enjoy all kinds of music. But it is kind of strange when I do parodies, instead of setting up drums and guitar amps.
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It becomes more important to me as time goes on to make every album the best thing I’ve ever done, so it’s a lot of self-imposed pressure that also kind of slows me down a bit.
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Maybe I’ll make a huge color tapestry from my belly button lint.
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Nows the time to go for all the gusto you can grab. You’ll have plenty of time to be low-key when you’re laid out on the slab.
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If money can’t buy happiness, then I guess I’ll have to rent it.
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