I guess I lost a little bit of self-esteem that time that you made it with the whole hockey team.
AL YANKOVICMy brothers and sisters hated me because I was an only child.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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I don’t want to pooh-pooh modern pop. I appreciate that as well, but my personal favorite kind of music is guitar-based rock. I like grunge and garage bands and alternative music, but that’s more my personal taste.
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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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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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Beans, beans, the magic legumes – the more you ingest, the more you consume.
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Not only are they just great, nice guys; they’re some of the best musicians you’re likely to find.
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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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My brothers and sisters hated me because I was an only child.
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As it turns out, there is a thing called the Internet, and stuff does go out there whether the suits like it or not.
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And then I’ll try and arrange them in a way that they would tell a semi-cohesive story.
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I think I’m equally as abusive as the editors normally are for the “Letters and Tomatoes” column, which is the fan mail part of MAD Magazine and an ongoing feature.
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So I’m one of the few celebrities that got to do a repeat performance on ‘The Simpsons,’ which I’m very flattered by.
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A lot of my cartoon voices are basically just variations on my natural voice.
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I have very mixed feelings about it. On one hand, I’m concerned that the rampant downloading of my copyright-protected material over the Internet is severely eating into my album sales and having a decidedly adverse effect on my career.
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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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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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