I knew we were having problems when you put those piranhas in my bathtub again.
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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I’ve learned how to use my spam filter pretty effectively.
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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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Maybe I’ll make a huge color tapestry from my belly button lint.
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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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I try to pick songs that I actually like because I realize that I have to live with these songs for a long time, from when I’m working on them in the studio to possibly playing them onstage for the rest of my life.
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That’s a big part of my life – doing things that I’m not prepared to do.
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There are a lot of songs that would ostensibly be a good candidate for parody, yet I can’t think of a clever enough idea.
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So that’s why one of my rules of parody writing is that it’s gotta be funny regardless of whether you know the source material. It has to work on its own merit.
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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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My own personal tastes don’t really have an effect on whether song is a parody target or not. But having said that,
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People never ask people doing serious music, ‘Do you ever think about doing funny music?’
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How can you get bored if the audience is cheering and laughing at something you’re doing?
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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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People that were a little nerdy in high school would look up to me and know it gets better.
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