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.
AL YANKOVICIt doesn’t take a military genius to see we’ll all be crispy critters after World War III.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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Many years ago I found out something about hamburgers that really grossed me out. You may not know this, so I hope I don’t make you sick, but it turns out hamburgers are actually made out of dead cows.
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He put Ben Gay inside my jock strap and filled my tooth paste tube up with glue.
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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 cut my teeth playing rock songs on the accordion when I was a teenager and my friends always thought that was extremely amusing.
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I don’t want to hear about this train being derailed! What happened to ‘The Flintstones’?’
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I can’t get too offended when somebody parodies me.
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My hobbies just sort of gradually became my vocation.
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I did have a child, and I was reading a lot of picture books to her, but at the same time writing a children’s book was something that I’d been wanting to do for many years, pretty much since the start of my career.
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Left all my Beatle records out in the sun, got a coke bottle stuck on the end of my tongue.
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Take down those naked pictures of Ernest Borgnine.
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I know I’m a million times as humble as thou art!
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If I could find the right kind of property, get tied in with the right movie, I’d love to be involved, but I just find it hard to be motivated to do another screenplay right now.
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I don’t want to pooh-pooh modern pop. I appreciate that as well, but my personal favorite kind of music is guitar-based rock. I like grunge and garage bands and alternative music, but that’s more my personal taste.
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Well I’ve made no secret of my life long love of MAD Magazine, it’s probably my first and greatest influence in terms of my comic sensibilities. I’ve known John [Ficarra] for many years, and we’ve been friends.
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You got me stranded on the bungee tower of love.
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