I’m watching the charts every week and hoping something will pop into my head.
AL YANKOVICMany years ago I found out something about hamburgers that really grossed me out. You may not know this, so I hope I don’t make you sick, but it turns out hamburgers are actually made out of dead cows.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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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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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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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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I start with a comprehensive list of all the recent songs that have been big hits – and then I go down that list and see if I can come up with funny ideas for them. I can always come up with ideas, but not necessarily good ones!
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I’ve always known that if I recorded an album, it would come out, and people would enjoy it!
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Midget wrestling on channel 3, it costs me 50 bucks a month.
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Whereas if I wrote a movie script, chances are better than even that I’d just be another guy in L.A. with a movie script in his drawer.
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I try not to go the obvious route all the time, but sometimes the most obvious is actually the best.
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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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Boys like Peter are afraid of alot of things, like nuclear annihilation and flunking algebra, but they’re not afraid of wolves.
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That’s a big part of my life – doing things that I’m not prepared to do.
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A lot of my cartoon voices are basically just variations on my natural voice.
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Because you’re supposed to lose yourself in the character, but sometimes people look at a character and go “Oh, it’s ‘Weird Al.'”
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Doing things that I don’t know how to do, and keep doing them until I get good at them.
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They do everything from gangsta rap to polka music and every genre in between. It’s amazing.
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