If you want to avoid heated arguments, never discuss religion, politics, or whether the toilet paper roll should go over or under.
AL YANKOVICDidn’t have Nintendo, we just poured salt on snails.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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I don’t want to pooh-pooh modern pop. I appreciate that as well, but my personal favorite kind of music is guitar-based rock. I like grunge and garage bands and alternative music, but that’s more my personal taste.
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So that’s why one of my rules of parody writing is that it’s gotta be funny regardless of whether you know the source material. It has to work on its own merit.
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I’m obviously not a rapper, and I don’t have any claims to be one, really.
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They do everything from gangsta rap to polka music and every genre in between. It’s amazing.
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I’d rather clean all the bathrooms in Grand Central Station with my tongue than spend one more minute with you.
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That’s a big part of my life – doing things that I’m not prepared to do.
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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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About four or five months ago, at a dinner in New York, John made the very nice offer of my being guest editor for an issue of MAD and I thought about it for about half a nanosecond and decided that was a pretty good idea.
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That’s something the kids should know about. Reading is a gateway to witchcraft and lesbianism.
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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 brothers and sisters hated me because I was an only child.
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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’m watching the charts every week and hoping something will pop into my head.
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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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Whenever I do a parody it’s not meant to make you hate anybody’s music really.
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