Al Yankovic Quotes, Years Quotes, Careers Quotes

One of the hardest things I've had to deal with in my career is keeping my material topical even though I only release albums every three or four years.

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I'll bet every great thinker and leader we've got Could see all kinds of things other people could not! So then why get upset if somebody like me Tries to look at the world just a bit differently?

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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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It's hard to force creativity and humor.

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Nows 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.

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I'm still a geek on the inside, that's the important thing.

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It was difficult to get into my friends' rock bands when I was a teenager. They somehow didn't see the need for an accordion player. That's when I realized that I had to find my own path in life.

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That's something the kids should know about. Reading is a gateway to witchcraft and lesbianism.

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I think I'm equally as abusive as the editors normally are for the "Letters and Tomatoes" column, which is the fan mail part of MAD Magazine and an ongoing feature.

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People never ask people doing serious music, 'Do you ever think about doing funny music?'

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Take down those naked pictures of Ernest Borgnine.

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I'm a music fan, and I can listen to the radio, or music, without thinking, "How am I going to screw this up?" [Laughs] If I'm really actively trying to think of a parody, then I'll have my antenna out, and be a little more proactive about it.

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Pop culture's gotten much more disposable.

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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. 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. So that was a joke that I continue up to this very day.

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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 think my chances of ever making it into the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame are about as good as Milli Vanilli’s.

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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've learned how to use my spam filter pretty effectively.

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If money can't buy happiness, then I guess I'll have to rent it.

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I like the guitar-driven music of Nirvana at its peak. At that point, I thought there was a lot of really exciting music coming out.

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