Al Yankovic Quotes, Week Quotes

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

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

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Take down those naked pictures of Ernest Borgnine.

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He died a long painful death. However, you'll be happy to hear that just a few years later he was reincarnated as Shirley MacLaine.

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I don't think there are any new media I'd like to cover.

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It's hard to force creativity and humor.

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I decided that I wanted to be a voice on every animated cartoon in the history of the world - even shows that haven't been on the air for a very long time, that's going to be harder to pull off.

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I'm free to do what I please, I'm probably not going to do albums. Just because I think releasing tracks as singles is a better way for me to stay topical.

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Right now I'm listening to a lot of Top 40 music, because THAT'S MY JOB.

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If something is good enough, it can be out there and people will see it.

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There aren't that many superstars around anymore.

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Didn't have Nintendo, we just poured salt on snails.

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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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I have a long-standing history of respecting artists' wishes.

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I do a lot of different things, sometimes at the same time, and it's very difficult to figure out where I fit.

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

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In the '80s, I was the only game in town, I was the only one getting that kind of exposure in any rotation on MTV. Now with internet culture it seems like everyone is doing music parodies. And they're not all good!

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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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