You don’t need to be defined by your job.
AL YANKOVICLeft all my Beatle records out in the sun, got a coke bottle stuck on the end of my tongue.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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You slammed my face down on the barbecue grill, now my scars are all healing, but my heart never will.
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Take down those naked pictures of Ernest Borgnine.
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Probably 90 percent of my albums have polka medleys.
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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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I like the guitar-driven music of Nirvana at its peak. At that point, I thought there was a lot of really exciting music coming out.
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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’ll bet every great thinker and leader we’ve got Could see all kinds of things other people could not!
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It was difficult to get into my friends’ rock bands when I was a teenager.
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Midget wrestling on channel 3, it costs me 50 bucks a month.
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A lot of rap songs don’t usually have a lot of melody per se.
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You can try on our suede underwear if you choose. Do what you want, but don’t step on my blue suede shoes.
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Right now I’m listening to a lot of Top 40 music, because THAT’S MY JOB.
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What kind of morons do you have working at newspapers in Austin that would base an entire review of an artist’s performance on whether or not they had a good seat?
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Velvet Elvis never puts on weight.
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So then why get upset if somebody like me Tries to look at the world just a bit differently?
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Some people want to advertise their weirdness, and spread it out, that’s not me.
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In a genre where most of the artists are one-hit wonders, I’ve been able to hang around longer than most “serious” acts. I pride myself in being a very talented leech.
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It’s hard to force creativity and humor.
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A lot of my cartoon voices are basically just variations on my natural voice.
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I’ve always enjoyed animation and voiceover work. That’s something that I’ve been proactive about.
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When I was a kid, I thought I was going to be an architect, because when I was 12 years old I had a guidance counselor that convinced me that that was the best career choice for me.
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I was abducted by some aliens from space who kind a looked like Jamie Farr.
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In fact, when I come up with an idea for a parody I try to resist the urge to Google the idea to see if someone has done it already because the answer is almost always, “Yes, of course they have, they’ve thought of it!”
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People that were a little nerdy in high school would look up to me and know it gets better.
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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.
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If something is good enough, it can be out there and people will see it.
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