I think that was the genesis of my polka medleys, because every rock song I played on the accordion just sounded like a polka and my friends thought it was funny.
AL YANKOVICProbably 90 percent of my albums have polka medleys.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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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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The music has always been my bread and butter, and I’ve focused more of my attention on that.
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There’s a lot of different ways that a song would be a challenge to parody.
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My velvet Elvis means the world to me. Although he may not be worth much dough, he means more to me than some old Rembrandt or Van Gogh.
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My hobbies just sort of gradually became my vocation.
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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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Because you’re supposed to lose yourself in the character, but sometimes people look at a character and go “Oh, it’s ‘Weird Al.'”
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You fake something until you’re good at it.
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I can’t get too offended when somebody parodies me.
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Like, I have had moments, which I think most people have, where you’ll be watching TV, and it’ll be interrupted by some tragic event, and you’ll actually find yourself thinking,
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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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You got me stranded on the bungee tower of love.
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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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Doing things that I don’t know how to do, and keep doing them until I get good at them.
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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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