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Until you came along I never dated anyone this low on the food chain.

Al Yankovic

I’m free to do what I please, I’m probably not going to do albums. Just because I think releasing tracks as singles is a better way for me to stay topical.
AL YANKOVIC

Album Better Free Go Please Probably Realise Topical Way
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
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.
AL YANKOVIC

Band Comedy One Overlook Peeve Pet Problem Realize Same Sometimes Talent
Then I try to come up with ideas for parodies. And 99% of those ideas are horrible.
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Come Horrible Idea Parody
I knew we were having problems when you put those piranhas in my bathtub again.
AL YANKOVIC

Again Bathtub Have Piranhas Problem Relationship
When I go to my live shows it’s often a multigenerational audience, a family bonding experience.
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Experience Family Bond Live Show
Many years ago I found out something about hamburgers that really grossed me out. You may not know this, so I hope I don’t make you sick, but it turns out hamburgers are actually made out of dead cows.
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Gross Hamburger Many Out Sick Something Year
You fake something until you’re good at it.
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Fake Good Something Until
I like to think that I’ve gotten better at what I do. I spend more time and pay more attention to detail album after album. But pretty much it’s stayed the same.
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Ablum Album Attention Better Detail Gotten More Pay Spend Think Time
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
I’m just a no-good, scum sucking, nose picking, boot licking, sniveling, groveling, worthless hunk of slime.
AL YANKOVIC

Boot Esteem Good Grovel Hunk Low Nose Self Slime Worthless
Whereas if I wrote a movie script, chances are better than even that I’d just be another guy in L.A. with a movie script in his drawer.
AL YANKOVIC

Another Better Chance Drawer Guy Movie Script
The music has always been my bread and butter, and I’ve focused more of my attention on that.
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Always Attention Bread Butter Focus Music
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.
AL YANKOVIC

Around Artist Genre Hang Longer Most Serious Talent Wonder
It’s hard to really articulate what the parameters are that make one song parody-able and another song not, but if I can come up with a good enough idea for it, I go for it, and if not, then I have to move on.
AL YANKOVIC

Articulate Enough Idea Make Movie Parameter Song
My hobbies just sort of gradually became my vocation.
AL YANKOVIC

Gradually Hobby Sort Vocation

Until you came along I never dated anyone this low on the food chain.

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