I’ve always known that if I recorded an album, it would come out, and people would enjoy it!
AL YANKOVICIn 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.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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I love the way they run in fright when I turn on the kitchen light. And when I squish them on the ground, they make a pleasant crunchy sound.
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Got a brand new semi-automatic weapon with a laser sight. Oh, I’m praying that somebody tries to break in here tonight.
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I did have a child, and I was reading a lot of picture books to her, but at the same time writing a children’s book was something that I’d been wanting to do for many years, pretty much since the start of my career.
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Maybe I’ll make a huge color tapestry from my belly button lint.
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I am not making this up. Needless to say, as soon as I discovered that, I gave up meat entirely.
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Probably 90 percent of my albums have polka medleys.
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I do original songs in the style of other artists, where I try to learn all their musical idiosyncrasies and try to do something that sounds like them and yet is a bit more sick and twisted.
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I think I’m equally as abusive as the editors normally are for the “Letters and Tomatoes” column, which is the fan mail part of MAD Magazine and an ongoing feature.
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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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Left all my Beatle records out in the sun, got a coke bottle stuck on the end of my tongue.
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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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I’ll be mellow when I’m dead.
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Then I try to come up with ideas for parodies. And 99% of those ideas are horrible.
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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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So then why get upset if somebody like me Tries to look at the world just a bit differently?
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