They somehow didn’t see the need for an accordion player. That’s when I realized that I had to find my own path in life.
AL YANKOVICIn fact, when I come up with an idea for a parody I try to resist the urge to Google the idea to see if someone has done it already because the answer is almost always, “Yes, of course they have, they’ve thought of it!”
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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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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My brothers and sisters hated me because I was an only child.
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I can’t say enough good things about my band. I feel very fortunate that I found them when I did, very early in my career.
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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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I knew we were having problems when you put those piranhas in my bathtub again.
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It was difficult to get into my friends’ rock bands when I was a teenager.
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A lot of my cartoon voices are basically just variations on my natural voice.
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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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If something is good enough, it can be out there and people will see it.
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I guess I lost a little bit of self-esteem that time that you made it with the whole hockey team.
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No Joni Mitchell 8 track tapes in my car.
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You still have Top 40 radio now, but it’s 40 different stations. There aren’t many hits that everybody knows, and there aren’t many real superstars.
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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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Not any specific one, but I was a huge fan of Frank Jacobs, I guess he wrote the plurality of the song parodies for MAD, Sam Hart, a few others, but that was also where I was first exposed to the art form of song parodies.
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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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