Not only are they just great, nice guys; they’re some of the best musicians you’re likely to find.
AL YANKOVICTake down those naked pictures of Ernest Borgnine.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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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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You can play some schlock like New Kids On the Block.
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I don’t like to label myself. I know I’m very hard to pigeonhole.
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If something is good enough, it can be out there and people will see it.
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I suppose I had my rock star fantasies while I was singing into my hairbrush in the bathroom mirror, but I never really consciously said, ‘OK, this is what I’m going to do for a living and I’m going to be Weird Al.’
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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’m stranded all alone in the gas station of love, and I have to use the self service pump.
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How can you get bored if the audience is cheering and laughing at something you’re doing?
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I’m always a little leery about doing shows where I’m not the headliner because when I first started playing in 1982 I opened for Missing Persons and got pelted for 45 minutes.
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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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I think that was the genesis of my polka medleys, because every rock song I played on the accordion just sounded like a polka and my friends thought it was funny.
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He put Ben Gay inside my jock strap and filled my tooth paste tube up with glue.
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You got me stranded on the bungee tower of love.
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There’s enough people that do unfunny music. I’ll leave the serious stuff to Paris Hilton and Kevin Federline.
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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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