Al Yankovic Quotes, Years Quotes, Careers Quotes

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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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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How can you get bored if the audience is cheering and laughing at something you're doing?

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I start with a comprehensive list of all the recent songs that have been big hits - and then I go down that list and see if I can come up with funny ideas for them. I can always come up with ideas, but not necessarily good ones!

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Probably 90 percent of my albums have polka medleys.

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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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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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The music has always been my bread and butter, and I've focused more of my attention on that.

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A lot of artists have really been supportive over the years.

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Buy our album, were Nirvana, a garage band from Seattle. Well, it sure beats raising cattle.

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When I swore that you're getting more and more beautiful everyday. Well, I was only kidding, honey.

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I know now that everything I write, I'm going to put out, and I'll have to live with it for the rest of my life.

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It fit pretty nicely into my schedule because we'd pretty much finished the bulk of promotion for Mandatory Fun and were just getting geared up for the World Tour so this was a nice time for me to be working on it.

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A lot of rap songs don't usually have a lot of melody per se.

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I'm obviously not a rapper, and I don't have any claims to be one, really.

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I don't watch anything on a regular basis - I tend to binge-watch things.

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As it turns out, there is a thing called the Internet, and stuff does go out there whether the suits like it or not.

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I'm stranded all alone in the gas station of love, and I have to use the self service pump.

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

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I'm watching the charts every week and hoping something will pop into my head.

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