You slammed my face down on the barbecue grill, now my scars are all healing, but my heart never will.
AL YANKOVICWhen I started out, I didn’t feel like I was really accepted in the music or comedy communities, and I was somewhere on the edge, but now I feel like I’m accepted in both, which is extremely gratifying.
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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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You still have Top 40 radio now, but it’s 40 different stations. There aren’t many hits that everybody knows, and there aren’t many real superstars.
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I have very mixed feelings about it. On one hand, I’m concerned that the rampant downloading of my copyright-protected material over the Internet is severely eating into my album sales and having a decidedly adverse effect on my career.
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Take down those naked pictures of Ernest Borgnine.
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The irony is of course that my career has lasted a whole lot longer than some of the people I’ve parodied over the years.
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I’m a music fan, and I can listen to the radio, or music, without thinking, “How am I going to screw this up?” [Laughs] If I’m really actively trying to think of a parody, then I’ll have my antenna out, and be a little more proactive about it.
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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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Left all my Beatle records out in the sun, got a coke bottle stuck on the end of my tongue.
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It’s very much a “Weird Al” themed issue, so I’d like to think that there’s a lot of “Weird Al” flavor throughout but I think it’d be generous really to call me an editor.
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Buy our album, were Nirvana, a garage band from Seattle. Well, it sure beats raising cattle.
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A lot of my cartoon voices are basically just variations on my natural voice.
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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.
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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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As my father used to tell me, the only true sign of success in life is being able to do for a living that which makes you happy.
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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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