You still have Top 40 radio now, but it’s 40 different stations. There aren’t many hits that everybody knows, and there aren’t many real superstars.
AL YANKOVICKind of wish I was dead. Maybe, I’ll blow my brains out, mama, or maybe I’ll go bowling.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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I’m an ugly girl, My face makes you hurl, Sad I have it, I should bag it. Acne everywhere, Unwanted facial hair. I’m a relation to Frankenstein’s creation.
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When I go to my live shows it’s often a multigenerational audience, a family bonding experience.
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Maybe I’ll make a huge color tapestry from my belly button lint.
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As much as people are griping about the Internet taking sales away from artists, it’s been a huge promotional tool for me.
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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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Midget wrestling on channel 3, it costs me 50 bucks a month.
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I do a lot of different things, sometimes at the same time, and it’s very difficult to figure out where I fit.
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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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I like the guitar-driven music of Nirvana at its peak. At that point, I thought there was a lot of really exciting music coming out.
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Every night for dinner we had a big chunk of dirt.
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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.
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After that, I made the decision to headline no matter what, even if I was playing to seven people. I wanted people to be there to see me.
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There aren’t that many superstars around anymore.
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Buy our album, were Nirvana, a garage band from Seattle. Well, it sure beats raising cattle.
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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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