Al Yankovic Quotes, Song Quotes, Ideas Quotes

I make charts of songs that are good candidates, good targets, so to speak. Then I try to come up with ideas for parodies. And 99% of those ideas are horrible.

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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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I try not to go the obvious route all the time, but sometimes the most obvious is actually the best.

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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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I was abducted by some aliens from space who kind a looked like Jamie Farr.

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My own personal tastes don't really have an effect on whether song is a parody target or not. But having said that, I try to pick songs that I actually like because I realize that I have to live with these songs for a long time, from when I'm working on them in the studio to possibly playing them onstage for the rest of my life. So I try not to pick songs that I know would drive me crazy.

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Whenever I do a parody it's not meant to make you hate anybody's music really.

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My brothers and sisters hated me because I was an only child.

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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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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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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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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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Midget wrestling on channel 3, it costs me 50 bucks a month.

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If I could find the right kind of property, get tied in with the right movie, I'd love to be involved, but I just find it hard to be motivated to do another screenplay right now.

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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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You slammed my face down on the barbecue grill, now my scars are all healing, but my heart never will.

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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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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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As a kid, I certainly never thought I would get to spend my life doing something fun.

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He put Ben Gay inside my jock strap and filled my tooth paste tube up with glue.

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