Buy our album, were Nirvana, a garage band from Seattle. Well, it sure beats raising cattle.
AL YANKOVICI cut my teeth playing rock songs on the accordion when I was a teenager and my friends always thought that was extremely amusing.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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Probably 90 percent of my albums have polka medleys.
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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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Until you came along I never dated anyone this low on the food chain.
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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 knew we were having problems when you put those piranhas in my bathtub again.
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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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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 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.
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I do a lot of different things, sometimes at the same time, and it’s very difficult to figure out where I fit.
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My brothers and sisters hated me because I was an only child.
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And then I’ll try and arrange them in a way that they would tell a semi-cohesive story.
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I love the way they run in fright when I turn on the kitchen light. And when I squish them on the ground, they make a pleasant crunchy sound.
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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.
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Kind of wish I was dead. Maybe, I’ll blow my brains out, mama, or maybe I’ll go bowling.
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Maybe I’ll make a huge color tapestry from my belly button lint.
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