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I enjoy all kinds of music. But it is kind of strange when I do parodies, instead of setting up drums and guitar amps.

Al Yankovic

I’d rather clean all the bathrooms in Grand Central Station with my tongue than spend one more minute with you.
AL YANKOVIC

Bathroom Clean Grand Minute Spend Station Tongue
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.
AL YANKOVIC

Appreciate Favorite Guitar Kind Modern Music Personal Pooh Pop
Whenever I do a parody it’s not meant to make you hate anybody’s music really.
AL YANKOVIC

Anybody Hate Make Music Parody Really
Doing things that I don’t know how to do, and keep doing them until I get good at them.
AL YANKOVIC

Do Good Know Them Thing Until
In the ’80s, I was the only game in town, I was the only one getting that kind of exposure in any rotation on MTV.
AL YANKOVIC

Eighty Exposure Game Getting Kind One Only Rotation Town
How can you get bored if the audience is cheering and laughing at something you’re doing?
AL YANKOVIC

Audience Bore Cheer Do Parody Something
Midget wrestling on channel 3, it costs me 50 bucks a month.
AL YANKOVIC

Buck Channel Midget Month Wres
I have a long-standing history of respecting artists’ wishes.
AL YANKOVIC

History Long Respect Stand Wish
One of the hardest things I’ve had to deal with in my career is keeping my material topical even though I only release albums every three or four years.
AL YANKOVIC

Album Career Deel Keep Material Three Topical Year
I can bend paper clips into the shapes of small animals.
AL YANKOVIC

Animal Bend Paper Shape Work
I cut my teeth playing rock songs on the accordion when I was a teenager and my friends always thought that was extremely amusing.
AL YANKOVIC

Accordion Amuse Cut Extreme Paly Rock Song Teenage
You make me wanna staple bagels to my face, then remove them with a pitchfork.
AL YANKOVIC

Bagel Face Pitchfork Remove Staple Wanna
When I started out, I didn’t feel like I was really accepted in the music or comedy communities, and I was somewhere on the edge, but now I feel like I’m accepted in both, which is extremely gratifying.
AL YANKOVIC

Accept Comedy Community Feel Gratifying Like Music Somewhere Start
Every night for dinner we had a big chunk of dirt.
AL YANKOVIC

Big Chunk Dinner Dirt Every Night Reality
I always try to put myself out of my comfort zone and out of my depth, and hopefully somewhere along the line I’ll catch up.
AL YANKOVIC

Along Catch Comfort Hopefully Somewhere Try
People never ask people doing serious music, ‘Do you ever think about doing funny music?’
AL YANKOVIC

Do Funny Music People Serious Think

I enjoy all kinds of music. But it is kind of strange when I do parodies, instead of setting up drums and guitar amps.

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