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.
AL YANKOVICI 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.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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There’s a lot of different ways that a song would be a challenge to parody.
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I know I’m a million times as humble as thou art!
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You fake something until you’re good at it.
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I’m very analytical, I’m very precise.
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No Joni Mitchell 8 track tapes in my car.
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Every night for dinner we had a big chunk of dirt.
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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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When I swore that you’re getting more and more beautiful everyday. Well, I was only kidding, honey.
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There are probably a few library fines I haven’t paid yet, but I’m a pretty clean-cut guy overall.
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Pop culture’s gotten much more disposable.
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You got me stranded on the bungee tower of love.
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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.
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So I try not to pick songs that I know would drive me crazy.
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Now with internet culture it seems like everyone is doing music parodies. And they’re not all good!
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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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