Al Yankovic Quotes

I’ve learned how to use my spam filter pretty effectively.
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Effectively Filter Learn Pretty Spam Use
I’m still a geek on the inside, that’s the important thing.
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Comedy Geek Important Inside Thing
So I try not to pick songs that I know would drive me crazy.
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Crazy Drive Know Pick Song Try
I’ll bet every great thinker and leader we’ve got Could see all kinds of things other people could not!
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Every Great Kind Leader Not Other People Thing Upset
It’s very much a “Weird Al” themed issue, so I’d like to think that there’s a lot of “Weird Al” flavor throughout but I think it’d be generous really to call me an editor.
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Call Editor Generous Issue Think Throughout Weird
There’s a lot of different ways that a song would be a challenge to parody.
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Arm Challenge Clever Different Fashion Lot Parody Sign Song
I was abducted by some aliens from space who kind a looked like Jamie Farr.
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Abuduct Fair Kind Look Space
Some songs are too repetitive for me to be able to fashion a humorous set of lyrics around. Some songs flat-out just don’t work creatively for me.
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Around Creatively Humorous Lyric Repetitive Some Song
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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Although Dough Mean Some Velvet World Worth
You can play some schlock like New Kids On the Block.
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Block Kid Kids New Play Scholar Some
I have a long-standing history of respecting artists’ wishes.
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History Long Respect Stand Wish
Didn’t have Nintendo, we just poured salt on snails.
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Honesty Nintendo Pour Salt Snail
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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Artist Grip Huge Much People Promotion Tool
You got me stranded on the bungee tower of love.
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Bungee Love Lower Relationship Strand Tower
I don’t think there are any new media I’d like to cover.
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Any Cover Media New Think
It’s hard to force creativity and humor.
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Creativity Force Hard Humor
I can’t get too offended when somebody parodies me.
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Get Me Offend Parody Somebody Too
The window doesn’t open, the fan is broke, and my face is turning blue. I haven’t been in a crowd like this since I went to see the Who.
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Ace Blue Broke Crowd Fan Open Since Turn Window
My personal taste doesn’t enter into it a lot when I make my decisions as to what to parody.
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Book Decison Enetr Parody Personal Read
Because you’re supposed to lose yourself in the character, but sometimes people look at a character and go “Oh, it’s ‘Weird Al.'”
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Character Look People Sometimes Suppose Weird Yourself
I think that nerds, if you want to call them that, have only gotten more hip and assimilated into the culture.
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Assimilate Call Culture Gotten More Nerd Think Want
In 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.
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Around Artist Genre Hang Longer Most Serious Talent Wonder
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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Bathroom Clean Grand Minute Spend Station Tongue
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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Cut Fine Guy Library Overall Paid Pretty Probably
Probably 90 percent of my albums have polka medleys.
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Album Medley Percent Polka Probably
Buy our album, were Nirvana, a garage band from Seattle. Well, it sure beats raising cattle.
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Album Band Bet Cattle Garage Nirvana Our Raise Seattle Sure
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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Esteem Hockey Little Lost Made Self Team

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