Pop culture’s gotten much more disposable.
AL YANKOVICPop culture’s gotten much more disposable.
AL YANKOVICIn a genre where most of the artists are one-hit wonders, I’ve been able to hang around longer than most “serious” acts. I pride myself in being a very talented leech.
AL YANKOVICProbably 90 percent of my albums have polka medleys.
AL YANKOVICA lot of my cartoon voices are basically just variations on my natural voice.
AL YANKOVICI’m just a no-good, scum sucking, nose picking, boot licking, sniveling, groveling, worthless hunk of slime.
AL YANKOVICYou still have Top 40 radio now, but it’s 40 different stations. There aren’t many hits that everybody knows, and there aren’t many real superstars.
AL YANKOVICSo then why get upset if somebody like me Tries to look at the world just a bit differently?
AL YANKOVICI decided that I wanted to be a voice on every animated cartoon in the history of the world – even shows that haven’t been on the air for a very long time, that’s going to be harder to pull off.
AL YANKOVICThere are a lot of songs that would ostensibly be a good candidate for parody, yet I can’t think of a clever enough idea.
AL YANKOVICYou got me stranded on the bungee tower of love.
AL YANKOVICI have very mixed feelings about it. On one hand, I’m concerned that the rampant downloading of my copyright-protected material over the Internet is severely eating into my album sales and having a decidedly adverse effect on my career.
AL YANKOVICWhen I go to my live shows it’s often a multigenerational audience, a family bonding experience.
AL YANKOVICVelvet Elvis never puts on weight.
AL YANKOVICAfter 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 nerds, if you want to call them that, have only gotten more hip and assimilated into the culture.
AL YANKOVICMidget wrestling on channel 3, it costs me 50 bucks a month.
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