You can try on our suede underwear if you choose. Do what you want, but don’t step on my blue suede shoes.
AL YANKOVICHow can you get bored if the audience is cheering and laughing at something you’re doing?
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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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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I’d rather clean all the bathrooms in Grand Central Station with my tongue than spend one more minute with you.
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I tend to enunciate pretty well. It’s always seemed that my voice is one of those voices that people can recognize pretty easily – which has been a bit of a drawback for some characters.
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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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And then I’ll try and arrange them in a way that they would tell a semi-cohesive story.
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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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What kind of morons do you have working at newspapers in Austin that would base an entire review of an artist’s performance on whether or not they had a good seat?
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Velvet Elvis never puts on weight.
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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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The irony is of course that my career has lasted a whole lot longer than some of the people I’ve parodied over the years.
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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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I always try to put myself out of my comfort zone and out of my depth, and hopefully somewhere along the line I’ll catch up.
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I love the way they run in fright when I turn on the kitchen light. And when I squish them on the ground, they make a pleasant crunchy sound.
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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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I’m very analytical, I’m very precise. I mean, I don’t write for kids.
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