People never ask people doing serious music, ‘Do you ever think about doing funny music?’
AL YANKOVICI mean, I hate to gloat, but I’m extremely satisfied with my position in life and the way things have worked out for me.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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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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I enjoy all kinds of music. But it is kind of strange when I do parodies, instead of setting up drums and guitar amps.
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I’m just a no-good, scum sucking, nose picking, boot licking, sniveling, groveling, worthless hunk of slime.
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At this point I’ve got a bit of a track record. So people realize that when ‘Weird Al’ wants to go parody, it’s not meant to make them look bad… it’s meant to be a tribute.
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It’s very much a “Weird Al” themed issue, so I’d like to think that there’s a lot of “Weird Al” flavor throughout but I think it’d be generous really to call me an editor.
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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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I’ll bet every great thinker and leader we’ve got Could see all kinds of things other people could not!
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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.
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I’ve learned how to use my spam filter pretty effectively.
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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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Until you came along I never dated anyone this low on the food chain.
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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 think I’m equally as abusive as the editors normally are for the “Letters and Tomatoes” column, which is the fan mail part of MAD Magazine and an ongoing feature.
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I make charts of songs that are good candidates, good targets, so to speak.
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