Left all my Beatle records out in the sun, got a coke bottle stuck on the end of my tongue.
AL YANKOVICAs much as people are griping about the Internet taking sales away from artists, it’s been a huge promotional tool for me.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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I’d like to be able to be more topical and timely and more of-the-moment and I think the way to do that is, instead of waiting until I have twelve songs to release all at once, just to release them as I come up with them.
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I’m watching the charts every week and hoping something will pop into my head.
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People say releasing an album is like giving birth, but it’s more like having a gallbladder operation.
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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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I start with a comprehensive list of all the recent songs that have been big hits – and then I go down that list and see if I can come up with funny ideas for them. I can always come up with ideas, but not necessarily good ones!
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Ever since the day you left me, I’ve been so miserable, my dear. I feel almost as bad as I did when you were still here.
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My wife went off with Elvis.
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I’ll bet every great thinker and leader we’ve got Could see all kinds of things other people could not!
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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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As a kid, I certainly never thought I would get to spend my life doing something fun.
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I was a huge fan of ‘Mad’ magazine when I was 11, 12, 13 years old. I’d scour used bookstores trying to find back issues, and I’d wait at the newsstand for a new issue to come out. My life revolved around it.
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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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You slammed my face down on the barbecue grill, now my scars are all healing, but my heart never will.
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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 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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