At this point I’ve got a bit of a track record. So people realize that when ‘Weird Al’ wants to go parody, it’s not meant to make them look bad… it’s meant to be a tribute.
AL YANKOVICI’m always a little leery about doing shows where I’m not the headliner because when I first started playing in 1982 I opened for Missing Persons and got pelted for 45 minutes.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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I was abducted by some aliens from space who kind a looked like Jamie Farr.
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You slammed my face down on the barbecue grill, now my scars are all healing, but my heart never will.
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Whenever I do a parody it’s not meant to make you hate anybody’s music really.
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I’m just a no-good, scum sucking, nose picking, boot licking, sniveling, groveling, worthless hunk of slime.
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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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Maybe I’ll make a huge color tapestry from my belly button lint.
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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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As a kid, I certainly never thought I would get to spend my life doing something fun.
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Somebody will come up to me after a show and have me sign their arm, and the next time I see them my autograph has been permanently inscribed on their arm.
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I try not to go the obvious route all the time, but sometimes the most obvious is actually the best.
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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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I don’t think there are any new media I’d like to cover.
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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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Until you came along I never dated anyone this low on the food chain.
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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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