I’m stranded all alone in the gas station of love, and I have to use the self service pump.
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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.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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I’m stranded all alone in the gas station of love, and I have to use the self service pump.
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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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Doing things that I don’t know how to do, and keep doing them until I get good at them.
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Probably 90 percent of my albums have polka medleys.
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As much as people are griping about the Internet taking sales away from artists, it’s been a huge promotional tool for me.
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I’m known for being an up, high-energy, and optimistic kind of guy.
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It was difficult to get into my friends’ rock bands when I was a teenager.
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How can you get bored if the audience is cheering and laughing at something you’re doing?
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What kind of morons do you have working at newspapers in Austin that would base an entire review of an artist’s performance on whether or not they had a good seat?
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I’m very analytical, I’m very precise. I mean, I don’t write for kids.
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You can play some schlock like New Kids On the Block.
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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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I cut my teeth playing rock songs on the accordion when I was a teenager and my friends always thought that was extremely amusing.
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You fake something until you’re good at it.
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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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There are probably a few library fines I haven’t paid yet, but I’m a pretty clean-cut guy overall.
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