It was difficult to get into my friends’ rock bands when I was a teenager.
AL YANKOVICI dated Siamese twins, I slept with Big Foot, too. Get me on Sally Jesse, put me on Donahue.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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I have a long-standing history of respecting artists’ wishes.
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There aren’t that many superstars around anymore.
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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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There are a lot of songs that would ostensibly be a good candidate for parody, yet I can’t think of a clever enough idea.
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Sometimes I get, “Have you ever thought about doing real music?” I like to think the music I do is real, it just happens to be funny.
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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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I was able to come up with a couple articles for the magazine, I was able to solicit help from a bunch of my friends to contribute pieces: Patton Oswalt, Seth Green, Emo Phillips, Chris Hardwick, John Hodgman, and more.
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A lot of rap songs don’t usually have a lot of melody per se.
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That’s something the kids should know about. Reading is a gateway to witchcraft and lesbianism.
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You got me stranded on the bungee tower of love.
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About four or five months ago, at a dinner in New York, John made the very nice offer of my being guest editor for an issue of MAD and I thought about it for about half a nanosecond and decided that was a pretty good idea.
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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 think that nerds, if you want to call them that, have only gotten more hip and assimilated into the culture.
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My hobbies just sort of gradually became my vocation.
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Many 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.
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