Whenever I do a parody it’s not meant to make you hate anybody’s music really.
AL YANKOVICProbably 90 percent of my albums have polka medleys.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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How can you get bored if the audience is cheering and laughing at something you’re doing?
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I cut my teeth playing rock songs on the accordion when I was a teenager and my friends always thought that was extremely amusing.
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I’m an ugly girl, My face makes you hurl, Sad I have it, I should bag it. Acne everywhere, Unwanted facial hair. I’m a relation to Frankenstein’s creation.
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My brothers and sisters hated me because I was an only child.
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You slammed my face down on the barbecue grill, now my scars are all healing, but my heart never will.
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I suppose I had my rock star fantasies while I was singing into my hairbrush in the bathroom mirror, but I never really consciously said, ‘OK, this is what I’m going to do for a living and I’m going to be Weird Al.’
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In a genre where most of the artists are one-hit wonders, I’ve been able to hang around longer than most “serious” acts. I pride myself in being a very talented leech.
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No Joni Mitchell 8 track tapes in my car.
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When I go to my live shows it’s often a multigenerational audience, a family bonding experience.
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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 always a little leery about doing shows where I’m not the headliner because when I first started playing in 1982 I opened for Missing Persons and got pelted for 45 minutes.
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As much as people are griping about the Internet taking sales away from artists, it’s been a huge promotional tool for me.
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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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Now with internet culture it seems like everyone is doing music parodies. And they’re not all good!
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I can’t get too offended when somebody parodies me.
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