Al Yankovic Quotes - Page 6

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• He put Ben Gay inside my jock strap and filled my tooth paste tube up with glue.

  Al Yankovic

  Revenge, Gay, Jocks

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• No Joni Mitchell 8 track tapes in my car.

  Al Yankovic

  Track, Car, Musical

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• Boys like Peter are afraid of alot of things, like nuclear annihilation and flunking algebra, but they're not afraid of wolves.

  Al Yankovic

  Boys, Games, Nuclear

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• My hobbies just sort of gradually became my vocation.

  Al Yankovic

  Hobbies, Vocation

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Midget wrestling on channel 3, it costs me 50 bucks a month.

  Al Yankovic

  Art, Wrestling, Media

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• Buy our album, were Nirvana, a garage band from Seattle. Well, it sure beats raising cattle.

  Al Yankovic

  Musical, Albums, Band

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• Take down those naked pictures of Ernest Borgnine.

  Al Yankovic

  Art, Media, Naked

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• The music has always been my bread and butter, and I've focused more of my attention on that.

  Al Yankovic

  Attention, Bread, Bread And Butter

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I've always known that if I recorded an album, it would come out, and people would enjoy it! Whereas if I wrote a movie script, chances are better than even that I'd just be another guy in L.A. with a movie script in his drawer.

  Al Yankovic

  People, Guy, Scripts

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• I'm free to do what I please, I'm probably not going to do albums. Just because I think releasing tracks as singles is a better way for me to stay topical.

  Al Yankovic

  Thinking, Track, Albums

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• I don't watch a lot of other people's parodies because I don't want to be unduly influenced.

  Al Yankovic

  People, Watches, Want

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• In fact, when I come up with an idea for a parody I try to resist the urge to Google the idea to see if someone has done it already because the answer is almost always, "Yes, of course they have, they've thought of it!"

  Al Yankovic

  Ideas, Google, Trying

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• I dated Siamese twins, I slept with Big Foot, too. Get me on Sally Jesse, put me on Donahue.

  Al Yankovic

  Art, Media, Feet

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• You can play some schlock like New Kids On the Block.

  Al Yankovic

  Block, Kids, Play

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• I've always enjoyed animation and voiceover work. That's something that I've been proactive about.

  Al Yankovic

  Proactive, Animation, Enjoyed

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• A lot of my cartoon voices are basically just variations on my natural voice.

  Al Yankovic

  Voice, Cartoon, Variation

  Source: www.avclub.com

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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 because you're supposed to lose yourself in the character, but sometimes people look at a character and go "Oh, it's 'Weird Al.'"

  Al Yankovic

  Character, Voice, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I think I'm equally as abusive as the editors normally are for the "Letters and Tomatoes" column, which is the fan mail part of MAD Magazine and an ongoing feature.

  Al Yankovic

  Thinking, Editors, Mad

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Not any specific one, but I was a huge fan of Frank Jacobs, I guess he wrote the plurality of the song parodies for MAD, Sam Hart, a few others, but that was also where I was first exposed to the art form of song parodies.

  Al Yankovic

  Song, Art, Mad

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• It becomes more important to me as time goes on to make every album the best thing I've ever done, so it's a lot of self-imposed pressure that also kind of slows me down a bit.

  Al Yankovic

  Self, Important, Done

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• One of the hardest things I've had to deal with in my career is keeping my material topical even though I only release albums every three or four years.

  Al Yankovic

  Years, Careers, Three

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Somebody will come up to me after a show and have me sign their arm, and the next time I see them my autograph has been permanently inscribed on their arm.

  Al Yankovic

  Next, Arms, Come Up

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• I'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. 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.

  Al Yankovic

  People, Decision, Missing

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• There's a lot of different ways that a song would be a challenge to parody. 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. Some songs are too repetitive for me to be able to fashion a humorous set of lyrics around. Some songs flat-out just don't work creatively for me.

  Al Yankovic

  Fashion, Song, Clever

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I'm known for being an up, high-energy, and optimistic kind of guy.

  Al Yankovic

  Optimistic, Guy, Energy

  Source: www.avclub.com

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