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 YANKOVICLeft all my Beatle records out in the sun, got a coke bottle stuck on the end of my tongue.
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Left all my Beatle records out in the sun, got a coke bottle stuck on the end of my tongue.
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I knew we were having problems when you put those piranhas in my bathtub again.
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People say releasing an album is like giving birth, but it’s more like having a gallbladder operation.
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I don’t really look at myself as the kind of person who craves attention, but I’ve never been to therapy so there’s probably a lot of stuff about myself that I don’t know.
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I think my chances of ever making it into the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame are about as good as Milli Vanilli’s.
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My personal taste doesn’t enter into it a lot when I make my decisions as to what to parody.
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I know now that everything I write, I’m going to put out, and I’ll have to live with it for the rest of my life.
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I’m just a no-good, scum sucking, nose picking, boot licking, sniveling, groveling, worthless hunk of slime.
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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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My velvet Elvis means the world to me. Although he may not be worth much dough, he means more to me than some old Rembrandt or Van Gogh.
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It fit pretty nicely into my schedule because we’d pretty much finished the bulk of promotion for Mandatory Fun and were just getting geared up for the World Tour so this was a nice time for me to be working on it.
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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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So I try not to pick songs that I know would drive me crazy.
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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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My brothers and sisters hated me because I was an only child.
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