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.
AL YANKOVICI 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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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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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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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 slammed my face down on the barbecue grill, now my scars are all healing, but my heart never will.
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I try not to go the obvious route all the time, but sometimes the most obvious is actually the best.
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Velvet Elvis never puts on weight.
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Maybe I’ll make a huge color tapestry from my belly button lint.
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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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I don’t think there are any new media I’d like to cover.
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Got a brand new semi-automatic weapon with a laser sight. Oh, I’m praying that somebody tries to break in here tonight.
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No Joni Mitchell 8 track tapes in my car.
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I’m known for being an up, high-energy, and optimistic kind of guy.
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My own personal tastes don’t really have an effect on whether song is a parody target or not. But having said that,
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I’m stranded all alone in the gas station of love, and I have to use the self service pump.
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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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