So that was a joke that I continue up to this very day.
AL YANKOVICI 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.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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I’ll be mellow when I’m dead.
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Probably 90 percent of my albums have polka medleys.
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Velvet Elvis never puts on weight.
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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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They do everything from gangsta rap to polka music and every genre in between. It’s amazing.
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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.
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In the ’80s, I was putting out an album virtually every year, I think mostly based on fear – that if I didn’t, people would soon forget about me.
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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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The irony is of course that my career has lasted a whole lot longer than some of the people I’ve parodied over the years.
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Buy our album, were Nirvana, a garage band from Seattle. Well, it sure beats raising cattle.
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I don’t want to hear about this train being derailed! What happened to ‘The Flintstones’?’
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You fake something until you’re good at it.
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Take down those naked pictures of Ernest Borgnine.
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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.
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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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