Al Yankovic Quotes, People Quotes, Good Enough Quotes

If something is good enough, it can be out there and people will see it.

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Every night for dinner we had a big chunk of dirt.

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Right now I'm listening to a lot of Top 40 music, because THAT'S MY JOB.

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Sometimes I get, "Have you ever thought about doing real music?" I like to think the music I do is real, it just happens to be funny.

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Ever since the day you left me, I've been so miserable, my dear. I feel almost as bad as I did when you were still here.

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When I was a kid, I thought I was going to be an architect, because when I was 12 years old I had a guidance counselor that convinced me that that was the best career choice for me.

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You got me stranded on the bungee tower of love.

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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!"

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

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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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I can't say enough good things about my band. I feel very fortunate that I found them when I did, very early in my career. Not only are they just great, nice guys; they're some of the best musicians you're likely to find. They do everything from gangsta rap to polka music and every genre in between. It's amazing.

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Beans, beans, the magic legumes - the more you ingest, the more you consume.

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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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It was difficult to get into my friends' rock bands when I was a teenager. They somehow didn't see the need for an accordion player. That's when I realized that I had to find my own path in life.

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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 knew we were having problems when you put those piranhas in my bathtub again.

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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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People that were a little nerdy in high school would look up to me and know it gets better.

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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.

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I start with a comprehensive list of all the recent songs that have been big hits - and then I go down that list and see if I can come up with funny ideas for them. I can always come up with ideas, but not necessarily good ones!

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