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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.

Al Yankovic

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.
AL YANKOVIC

Accept Comedy Community Feel Gratifying Like Music Somewhere Start
Didn’t have Nintendo, we just poured salt on snails.
AL YANKOVIC

Honesty Nintendo Pour Salt Snail
Somebody will come up to me after a show and have me sign their arm, and the next time I see them my autograph has been permanently inscribed on their arm.
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Arm Autograph Come Next Permanent Show Somebody Time Up
I think my chances of ever making it into the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame are about as good as Milli Vanilli’s.
AL YANKOVIC

Chance Fame Good Make Rock Think
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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April Day Excuse Fool Man never People Wise
Velvet Elvis never puts on weight.
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never Put Velvet Weight
I’ll be mellow when I’m dead.
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Dead Death Mellow Suicide
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 YANKOVIC

Band Comedy One Overlook Peeve Pet Problem Realize Same Sometimes Talent
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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Album Career Deel Keep Material Three Topical Year
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.
AL YANKOVIC

Able Instead Moment More Release Song Think Timely Topical War
Every night for dinner we had a big chunk of dirt.
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Big Chunk Dinner Dirt Every Night Reality
It’s hard to say, I picked one of my favorite articles for the MAD vault. Which is one of the features of the Magazine so they don’t have to actually pay artists or writers to come up with new stuff.
AL YANKOVIC

Article Artist Feature Made One Pick Say Vault
I’m a music fan, and I can listen to the radio, or music, without thinking, “How am I going to screw this up?” [Laughs] If I’m really actively trying to think of a parody, then I’ll have my antenna out, and be a little more proactive about it.
AL YANKOVIC

Fan Go Laugh Radio Screw Think Try
As much as people are griping about the Internet taking sales away from artists, it’s been a huge promotional tool for me.
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Artist Grip Huge Much People Promotion Tool
My brothers and sisters hated me because I was an only child.
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Brother Children Hate Only Child Sister
In the ’80s, I was the only game in town, I was the only one getting that kind of exposure in any rotation on MTV.
AL YANKOVIC

Eighty Exposure Game Getting Kind One Only Rotation Town

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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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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