Kind of wish I was dead. Maybe, I’ll blow my brains out, mama, or maybe I’ll go bowling.
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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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.
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People say releasing an album is like giving birth, but it’s more like having a gallbladder operation.
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Nows the time to go for all the gusto you can grab. You’ll have plenty of time to be low-key when you’re laid out on the slab.
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Velvet Elvis never puts on weight.
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I know now that everything I write, I’m going to put out, and I’ll have to live with it for the rest of my life.
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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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It fit pretty nicely into my schedule because we’d pretty much finished the bulk of promotion for Mandatory Fun and were just getting geared up for the World Tour so this was a nice time for me to be working on it.
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Pop culture’s gotten much more disposable.
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I’m a music fan, and I can listen to the radio, or music, without thinking, “How am I going to screw this up?” [Laughs] If I’m really actively trying to think of a parody, then I’ll have my antenna out, and be a little more proactive about it.
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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’ve always enjoyed animation and voiceover work. That’s something that I’ve been proactive about.
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I’ve always known that if I recorded an album, it would come out, and people would enjoy it!
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If I could find the right kind of property, get tied in with the right movie, I’d love to be involved, but I just find it hard to be motivated to do another screenplay right now.
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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 don’t think there are any new media I’d like to cover.
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