I enjoy all kinds of music. But it is kind of strange when I do parodies, instead of setting up drums and guitar amps.
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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Didn’t have Nintendo, we just poured salt on snails.
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I’m known for being an up, high-energy, and optimistic kind of guy.
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I don’t watch anything on a regular basis – I tend to binge-watch things.
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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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They do everything from gangsta rap to polka music and every genre in between. It’s amazing.
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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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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 make charts of songs that are good candidates, good targets, so to speak.
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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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It was difficult to get into my friends’ rock bands when I was a teenager.
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I’m still a geek on the inside, that’s the important thing.
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I have a long-standing history of respecting artists’ wishes.
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In the ’80s, I was putting out an album virtually every year, I think mostly based on fear – that if I didn’t, people would soon forget about me.
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I think my chances of ever making it into the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame are about as good as Milli Vanilli’s.
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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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