Al Yankovic on accept
Al Yankovic173 quotes“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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I’m still a geek on the inside, that’s the important thing.
Al YankovicAl Yankovic So I try not to pick songs that I know would drive me crazy.
Al YankovicAl Yankovic I’ll bet every great thinker and leader we’ve got Could see all kinds of things other people could not!
Al YankovicAl Yankovic There’s a lot of different ways that a song would be a challenge to parody.
Al YankovicAl Yankovic It’s very much a “Weird Al” themed issue, so I’d like to think that there’s a lot of “Weird Al” flavor throughout but I think it’d be generous really to call me an editor.
Al YankovicAl Yankovic I was abducted by some aliens from space who kind a looked like Jamie Farr.
Al YankovicAl Yankovic Some songs are too repetitive for me to be able to fashion a humorous set of lyrics around. Some songs flat-out just don’t work creatively for me.
Al YankovicAl Yankovic I have a long-standing history of respecting artists’ wishes.
Al YankovicAl Yankovic You can play some schlock like New Kids On the Block.
Al YankovicAl Yankovic My velvet Elvis means the world to me. Although he may not be worth much dough, he means more to me than some old Rembrandt or Van Gogh.
Al YankovicAl Yankovic As much as people are griping about the Internet taking sales away from artists, it’s been a huge promotional tool for me.
Al YankovicAl Yankovic Didn’t have Nintendo, we just poured salt on snails.
Al YankovicAl Yankovic You got me stranded on the bungee tower of love.
Al YankovicAl Yankovic It’s hard to force creativity and humor.
Al YankovicAl Yankovic I don’t think there are any new media I’d like to cover.
Al YankovicAl Yankovic I can’t get too offended when somebody parodies me.
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So after a while, if people won’t accept your excuses, you stop looking for them.
Ben CarsonBen Carson Today, the global warming alarmists are the equivalent of the flat-Earthers. It used to be [that] it is accepted scientific wisdom the Earth is flat, and this heretic named Galileo was branded a denier.
Ted CruzTed Cruz It’s part of the general global hypnotism to accept lies as the new truth.
Alan RudolphAlan Rudolph There is no man more dangerous, in a position of power, than he who refuses to accept as a working truth the idea that all a man does should make for rightness and soundness, that even the fixing of a tariff rate must be moral.
Ida TarbellIda Tarbell And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.
Tennessee WilliamsTennessee Williams She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love.
William FaulknerWilliam Faulkner A gentleman accepts the responsibility of his actions and bears the burden of their consequences.
William FaulknerWilliam Faulkner Only she tried twice and failed twice to find somebody not just strong enough to deserve it, earn it, match it, but even brave enough to accept it.
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