Because you’re supposed to lose yourself in the character, but sometimes people look at a character and go “Oh, it’s ‘Weird Al.'”
AL YANKOVICDidn’t have Nintendo, we just poured salt on snails.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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Left all my Beatle records out in the sun, got a coke bottle stuck on the end of my tongue.
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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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Velvet Elvis never puts on weight.
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You can play some schlock like New Kids On the Block.
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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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In a genre where most of the artists are one-hit wonders, I’ve been able to hang around longer than most “serious” acts. I pride myself in being a very talented leech.
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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.
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There’s a lot of different ways that a song would be a challenge to parody.
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Pop culture’s gotten much more disposable.
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I like the guitar-driven music of Nirvana at its peak. At that point, I thought there was a lot of really exciting music coming out.
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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 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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My hobbies just sort of gradually became my vocation.
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As a wise man once said, “April Fools Day is for amateurs. You NEVER need an excuse to mess with people’s heads.”
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After that, I made the decision to headline no matter what, even if I was playing to seven people. I wanted people to be there to see me.
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