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.
AL YANKOVICI don’t like to label myself. I know I’m very hard to pigeonhole.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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When I started out, I didn’t feel like I was really accepted in the music or comedy communities, and I was somewhere on the edge, but now I feel like I’m accepted in both, which is extremely gratifying.
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Ever since the day you left me, I’ve been so miserable, my dear. I feel almost as bad as I did when you were still here.
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There are probably a few library fines I haven’t paid yet, but I’m a pretty clean-cut guy overall.
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I try to pick songs that I actually like because I realize that I have to live with these songs for a long time, from when I’m working on them in the studio to possibly playing them onstage for the rest of my life.
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I’m obviously not a rapper, and I don’t have any claims to be one, really.
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I think my chances of ever making it into the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame are about as good as Milli Vanilli’s.
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It was difficult to get into my friends’ rock bands when I was a teenager.
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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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I’d like to be able to be more topical and timely and more of-the-moment and I think the way to do that is, instead of waiting until I have twelve songs to release all at once, just to release them as I come up with them.
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He died a long painful death. However, you’ll be happy to hear that just a few years later he was reincarnated as Shirley MacLaine.
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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 don’t watch a lot of other people’s parodies because I don’t want to be unduly influenced.
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I mean, I hate to gloat, but I’m extremely satisfied with my position in life and the way things have worked out for me.
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Some people want to advertise their weirdness, and spread it out, that’s not me.
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As my father used to tell me, the only true sign of success in life is being able to do for a living that which makes you happy.
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