I like the guitar-driven music of Nirvana at its peak. At that point, I thought there was a lot of really exciting music coming out.
AL YANKOVICProbably 90 percent of my albums have polka medleys.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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I’ve learned how to use my spam filter pretty effectively.
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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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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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In fact, when I come up with an idea for a parody I try to resist the urge to Google the idea to see if someone has done it already because the answer is almost always, “Yes, of course they have, they’ve thought of it!”
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It’s hard to really articulate what the parameters are that make one song parody-able and another song not, but if I can come up with a good enough idea for it, I go for it, and if not, then I have to move on.
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My personal taste doesn’t enter into it a lot when I make my decisions as to what to parody.
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I think my chances of ever making it into the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame are about as good as Milli Vanilli’s.
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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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And then I’ll try and arrange them in a way that they would tell a semi-cohesive story.
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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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He died a long painful death. However, you’ll be happy to hear that just a few years later he was reincarnated as Shirley MacLaine.
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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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As a kid, I certainly never thought I would get to spend my life doing something fun.
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A lot of rap songs don’t usually have a lot of melody per se.
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If something is good enough, it can be out there and people will see it.
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