Al Yankovic Quotes, Thinking Quotes, Years Quotes

In the '80s, I was putting out an album virtually every year, I think mostly based on fear - that if I didn't, people would soon forget about me.

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Kind of wish I was dead. Maybe, I'll blow my brains out, mama, or maybe I'll go bowling.

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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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Well I've made no secret of my life long love of MAD Magazine, it's probably my first and greatest influence in terms of my comic sensibilities. I've known John [Ficarra] for many years, and we've been friends. About four or five months ago, at a dinner in New York, John made the very nice offer of my being guest editor for an issue of MAD and I thought about it for about half a nanosecond and decided that was a pretty good idea.

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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. Not only are they just great, nice guys; they're some of the best musicians you're likely to find. They do everything from gangsta rap to polka music and every genre in between. It's amazing.

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Probably 90 percent of my albums have polka medleys.

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I dated Siamese twins, I slept with Big Foot, too. Get me on Sally Jesse, put me on Donahue.

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Velvet Elvis never puts on weight.

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

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My hobbies just sort of gradually became my vocation.

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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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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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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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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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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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It's hard to really articulate what the parameters are that make one song parody-able and another song not, but if I can come up with a good enough idea for it, I go for it, and if not, then I have to move on.

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I love the way they run in fright when I turn on the kitchen light. And when I squish them on the ground, they make a pleasant crunchy sound.

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

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I can bend paper clips into the shapes of small animals.

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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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