I like to think that I’ve gotten better at what I do. I spend more time and pay more attention to detail album after album. But pretty much it’s stayed the same.
AL YANKOVICI don’t like to label myself. I know I’m very hard to pigeonhole.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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About four or five months ago, at a dinner in New York, John made the very nice offer of my being guest editor for an issue of MAD and I thought about it for about half a nanosecond and decided that was a pretty good idea.
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So then why get upset if somebody like me Tries to look at the world just a bit differently?
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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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My wife went off with Elvis.
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I decided that I wanted to be a voice on every animated cartoon in the history of the world – even shows that haven’t been on the air for a very long time, that’s going to be harder to pull off.
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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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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 know I’m a million times as humble as thou art!
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So that was a joke that I continue up to this very day.
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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 knew we were having problems when you put those piranhas in my bathtub again.
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You got me stranded on the bungee tower of love.
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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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Not only are they just great, nice guys; they’re some of the best musicians you’re likely to find.
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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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