Velvet Elvis never puts on weight.
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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It was difficult to get into my friends’ rock bands when I was a teenager.
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I don’t want to hear about this train being derailed! What happened to ‘The Flintstones’?’
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I do original songs in the style of other artists, where I try to learn all their musical idiosyncrasies and try to do something that sounds like them and yet is a bit more sick and twisted.
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I enjoy all kinds of music. But it is kind of strange when I do parodies, instead of setting up drums and guitar amps.
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I mean, I hate to gloat, but I’m extremely satisfied with my position in life and the way things have worked out for me.
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I’d like to be able to be more topical and timely and more of-the-moment and I think the way to do that is, instead of waiting until I have twelve songs to release all at once, just to release them as I come up with them.
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One of my pet peeves is that sometimes the talents of my band get overlooked because, and it was the same problem that Frank Zappa had, with a lot of groups that use humor, people don’t realize there’s a lot of craft behind the comedy.
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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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Then I try to come up with ideas for parodies. And 99% of those ideas are horrible.
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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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Left all my Beatle records out in the sun, got a coke bottle stuck on the end of my tongue.
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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 write and write and write, and then I edit it down to the parts that I think are amusing, or that help the storyline, or I’ll write a notebook full of ideas of anecdotes or story points.
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I’ve learned how to use my spam filter pretty effectively.
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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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