I guess I lost a little bit of self-esteem that time that you made it with the whole hockey team.
AL YANKOVICIf something is good enough, it can be out there and people will see it.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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I start with a comprehensive list of all the recent songs that have been big hits – and then I go down that list and see if I can come up with funny ideas for them. I can always come up with ideas, but not necessarily good ones!
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I’d rather clean all the bathrooms in Grand Central Station with my tongue than spend one more minute with you.
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Not only are they just great, nice guys; they’re some of the best musicians you’re likely to find.
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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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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 mean, I hate to gloat, but I’m extremely satisfied with my position in life and the way things have worked out for me.
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You got me stranded on the bungee tower of love.
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I enjoy all kinds of music. But it is kind of strange when I do parodies, instead of setting up drums and guitar amps.
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It’s very much a “Weird Al” themed issue, so I’d like to think that there’s a lot of “Weird Al” flavor throughout but I think it’d be generous really to call me an editor.
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Not any specific one, but I was a huge fan of Frank Jacobs, I guess he wrote the plurality of the song parodies for MAD, Sam Hart, a few others, but that was also where I was first exposed to the art form of song parodies.
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My hobbies just sort of gradually became my vocation.
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I can bend paper clips into the shapes of small animals.
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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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I think that was the genesis of my polka medleys, because every rock song I played on the accordion just sounded like a polka and my friends thought it was funny.
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As it turns out, there is a thing called the Internet, and stuff does go out there whether the suits like it or not.
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