So I try not to pick songs that I know would drive me crazy.
AL YANKOVICI can’t say enough good things about my band. I feel very fortunate that I found them when I did, very early in my career.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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I know I’m a million times as humble as thou art!
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Maybe I’ll make a huge color tapestry from my belly button lint.
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Beans, beans, the magic legumes – the more you ingest, the more you consume.
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I don’t watch anything on a regular basis – I tend to binge-watch things.
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As a wise man once said, “April Fools Day is for amateurs. You NEVER need an excuse to mess with people’s heads.”
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It becomes more important to me as time goes on to make every album the best thing I’ve ever done, so it’s a lot of self-imposed pressure that also kind of slows me down a bit.
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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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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’ve always known that if I recorded an album, it would come out, and people would enjoy it!
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It’s hard to force creativity and humor.
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I did have a child, and I was reading a lot of picture books to her, but at the same time writing a children’s book was something that I’d been wanting to do for many years, pretty much since the start of my career.
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You make me wanna staple bagels to my face, then remove them with a pitchfork.
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So I’m one of the few celebrities that got to do a repeat performance on ‘The Simpsons,’ which I’m very flattered by.
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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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After that, I made the decision to headline no matter what, even if I was playing to seven people. I wanted people to be there to see me.
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