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 YANKOVICNows the time to go for all the gusto you can grab. You’ll have plenty of time to be low-key when you’re laid out on the slab.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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I can’t get too offended when somebody parodies me.
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On the other hand, I can get all the Metallica songs I want for FREE! WOW!
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A lot of artists have really been supportive over the years.
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When I go to my live shows it’s often a multigenerational audience, a family bonding experience.
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I don’t like to label myself. I know I’m very hard to pigeonhole.
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Buy our album, were Nirvana, a garage band from Seattle. Well, it sure beats raising cattle.
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People never ask people doing serious music, ‘Do you ever think about doing funny music?’
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A lot of rap songs don’t usually have a lot of melody per se.
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He died a long painful death. However, you’ll be happy to hear that just a few years later he was reincarnated as Shirley MacLaine.
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Probably 90 percent of my albums have polka medleys.
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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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There’s a lot of different ways that a song would be a challenge to parody.
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I can’t say enough good things about my band. I feel very fortunate that I found them when I did, very early in my career.
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What kind of morons do you have working at newspapers in Austin that would base an entire review of an artist’s performance on whether or not they had a good seat?
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You make me wanna staple bagels to my face, then remove them with a pitchfork.
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And then I’ll try and arrange them in a way that they would tell a semi-cohesive story.
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There aren’t that many superstars around anymore.
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Take down those naked pictures of Ernest Borgnine.
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I 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.
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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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I try not to go the obvious route all the time, but sometimes the most obvious is actually the best.
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People say releasing an album is like giving birth, but it’s more like having a gallbladder operation.
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Whenever I do a parody it’s not meant to make you hate anybody’s music really.
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As a kid, I certainly never thought I would get to spend my life doing something fun.
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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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My velvet Elvis means the world to me. Although he may not be worth much dough, he means more to me than some old Rembrandt or Van Gogh.
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