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.
AL YANKOVICEver since the day you left me, I’ve been so miserable, my dear. I feel almost as bad as I did when you were still here.
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 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 known for being an up, high-energy, and optimistic kind of guy.
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Boys like Peter are afraid of alot of things, like nuclear annihilation and flunking algebra, but they’re not afraid of wolves.
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My brothers and sisters hated me because I was an only child.
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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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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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I guess I lost a little bit of self-esteem that time that you made it with the whole hockey team.
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I knew we were having problems when you put those piranhas in my bathtub again.
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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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I tend to enunciate pretty well. It’s always seemed that my voice is one of those voices that people can recognize pretty easily – which has been a bit of a drawback for some characters.
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That’s something the kids should know about. Reading is a gateway to witchcraft and lesbianism.
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I don’t think there are any new media I’d like to cover.
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Every night for dinner we had a big chunk of dirt.
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I’m always a little leery about doing shows where I’m not the headliner because when I first started playing in 1982 I opened for Missing Persons and got pelted for 45 minutes.
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