Al Yankovic Quotes, Team Quotes, Self Esteem Quotes

I guess I lost a little bit of self-esteem that time that you made it with the whole hockey team.

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If you want to avoid heated arguments, never discuss religion, politics, or whether the toilet paper roll should go over or under.

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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 mean, I hate to gloat, but I'm extremely satisfied with my position in life and the way things have worked out for me.

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So that's why one of my rules of parody writing is that it's gotta be funny regardless of whether you know the source material. It has to work on its own merit.

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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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Ever since the day you left me, I've been so miserable, my dear. I feel almost as bad as I did when you were still here.

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By the time I'm in the studio recording my parody, 10,000 parodies of that song are on YouTube.

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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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I'd rather clean all the bathrooms in Grand Central Station with my tongue than spend one more minute with you.

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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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The window doesn't open, the fan is broke, and my face is turning blue. I haven't been in a crowd like this since I went to see the Who.

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What kind of morons do you have working at newspapers in Austin that would base an entire review of an artist's performance on whether or not they had a good seat?

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

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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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Not any specific one, but I was a huge fan of Frank Jacobs, I guess he wrote the plurality of the song parodies for MAD, Sam Hart, a few others, but that was also where I was first exposed to the art form of song parodies.

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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 was a huge fan of 'Mad' magazine when I was 11, 12, 13 years old. I'd scour used bookstores trying to find back issues, and I'd wait at the newsstand for a new issue to come out. My life revolved around it.

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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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I did have a child, and I was reading a lot of picture books to her, but at the same time writing a children's book was something that I'd been wanting to do for many years, pretty much since the start of my career.

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