I think my chances of ever making it into the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame are about as good as Milli Vanilli’s.
AL YANKOVICI 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.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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I have very mixed feelings about it. On one hand, I’m concerned that the rampant downloading of my copyright-protected material over the Internet is severely eating into my album sales and having a decidedly adverse effect on my career.
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What kind of morons do you have working at newspapers in Austin that would base an entire review of an artist’s performance on whether or not they had a good seat?
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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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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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Got a brand new semi-automatic weapon with a laser sight. Oh, I’m praying that somebody tries to break in here tonight.
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Didn’t have Nintendo, we just poured salt on snails.
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I’m stranded all alone in the gas station of love, and I have to use the self service pump.
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As a kid, I certainly never thought I would get to spend my life doing something fun.
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Midget wrestling on channel 3, it costs me 50 bucks a month.
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Take down those naked pictures of Ernest Borgnine.
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I decided that I wanted to be a voice on every animated cartoon in the history of the world – even shows that haven’t been on the air for a very long time, that’s going to be harder to pull off.
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If money can’t buy happiness, then I guess I’ll have to rent it.
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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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People never ask people doing serious music, ‘Do you ever think about doing funny music?’
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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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