Al Yankovic Quotes, Family Bonding Quotes, Shows Quotes

When I go to my live shows it's often a multigenerational audience, a family bonding experience.

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I'll be mellow when I'm dead.

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When I started out, I didn't feel like I was really accepted in the music or comedy communities, and I was somewhere on the edge, but now I feel like I'm accepted in both, which is extremely gratifying.

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The irony is of course that my career has lasted a whole lot longer than some of the people I've parodied over the years.

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You 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.

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My process for the parodies is that I get an idea for a song and then get approval from the artist and then go in and record it and probably try to get it out as soon as possible.

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I've always enjoyed animation and voiceover work. That's something that I've been proactive about.

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Somebody will come up to me after a show and have me sign their arm, and the next time I see them my autograph has been permanently inscribed on their arm.

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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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Probably 90 percent of my albums have polka medleys.

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I'm just a no-good, scum sucking, nose picking, boot licking, sniveling, groveling, worthless hunk of slime.

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I do original songs in the style of other artists, where I try to learn all their musical idiosyncrasies and try to do something that sounds like them and yet is a bit more sick and twisted.

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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. On the other hand, I can get all the Metallica songs I want for FREE! WOW!

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I can't get too offended when somebody parodies me.

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Left all my Beatle records out in the sun, got a coke bottle stuck on the end of my tongue.

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You can try on our suede underwear if you choose. Do what you want, but don't step on my blue suede shoes.

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A lot of my cartoon voices are basically just variations on my natural voice.

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I knew we were having problems when you put those piranhas in my bathtub again.

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Maybe I'll make a huge color tapestry from my belly button lint.

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It becomes more important to me as time goes on to make every album the best thing I've ever done, so it's a lot of self-imposed pressure that also kind of slows me down a bit.

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