I cut my teeth playing rock songs on the accordion when I was a teenager and my friends always thought that was extremely amusing.
AL YANKOVICIn the ’80s, I was putting out an album virtually every year, I think mostly based on fear – that if I didn’t, people would soon forget about me.
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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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Beans, beans, the magic legumes – the more you ingest, the more you consume.
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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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So I’m one of the few celebrities that got to do a repeat performance on ‘The Simpsons,’ which I’m very flattered by.
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I think that nerds, if you want to call them that, have only gotten more hip and assimilated into the culture.
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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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Some people want to advertise their weirdness, and spread it out, that’s not me.
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I don’t like to label myself. I know I’m very hard to pigeonhole.
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I don’t watch anything on a regular basis – I tend to binge-watch things.
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I’m known for being an up, high-energy, and optimistic kind of guy.
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You got me stranded on the bungee tower of love.
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Boys like Peter are afraid of alot of things, like nuclear annihilation and flunking algebra, but they’re not afraid of wolves.
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My own personal tastes don’t really have an effect on whether song is a parody target or not. But having said that,
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Midget wrestling on channel 3, it costs me 50 bucks a month.
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I always try to put myself out of my comfort zone and out of my depth, and hopefully somewhere along the line I’ll catch up.
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