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 YANKOVICI think my chances of ever making it into the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame are about as good as Milli Vanilli’s.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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I know I’m a million times as humble as thou art!
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I don’t watch anything on a regular basis – I tend to binge-watch things.
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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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I’m an ugly girl, My face makes you hurl, Sad I have it, I should bag it. Acne everywhere, Unwanted facial hair. I’m a relation to Frankenstein’s creation.
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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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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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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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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.
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That’s a big part of my life – doing things that I’m not prepared to do.
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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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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.
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Beans, beans, the magic legumes – the more you ingest, the more you consume.
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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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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.
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If something is good enough, it can be out there and people will see it.
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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.
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Until you came along I never dated anyone this low on the food chain.
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My brothers and sisters hated me because I was an only child.
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Buy our album, were Nirvana, a garage band from Seattle. Well, it sure beats raising cattle.
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Whenever I do a parody it’s not meant to make you hate anybody’s music really.
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As it turns out, there is a thing called the Internet, and stuff does go out there whether the suits like it or not.
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I love the way they run in fright when I turn on the kitchen light. And when I squish them on the ground, they make a pleasant crunchy sound.
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Then I try to come up with ideas for parodies. And 99% of those ideas are horrible.
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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.
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I know now that everything I write, I’m going to put out, and I’ll have to live with it for the rest of my life.
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I mean, I hate to gloat, but I’m extremely satisfied with my position in life and the way things have worked out for me.
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