The music has always been my bread and butter, and I’ve focused more of my attention on that.
AL YANKOVICHe put Ben Gay inside my jock strap and filled my tooth paste tube up with glue.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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Didn’t have Nintendo, we just poured salt on snails.
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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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Whenever I do a parody it’s not meant to make you hate anybody’s music really.
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In the ’80s, I was the only game in town, I was the only one getting that kind of exposure in any rotation on MTV.
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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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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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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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I’m stranded all alone in the gas station of love, and I have to use the self service pump.
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You got me stranded on the bungee tower of love.
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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’ve learned how to use my spam filter pretty effectively.
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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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Because you’re supposed to lose yourself in the character, but sometimes people look at a character and go “Oh, it’s ‘Weird Al.'”
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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.
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I’m free to do what I please, I’m probably not going to do albums. Just because I think releasing tracks as singles is a better way for me to stay topical.
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