I cut my teeth playing rock songs on the accordion when I was a teenager and my friends always thought that was extremely amusing.
AL YANKOVICThe irony is of course that my career has lasted a whole lot longer than some of the people I’ve parodied over the years.
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You fake something until you’re good at 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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Whereas if I wrote a movie script, chances are better than even that I’d just be another guy in L.A. with a movie script in his drawer.
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People say releasing an album is like giving birth, but it’s more like having a gallbladder operation.
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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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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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I know I’m a million times as humble as thou art!
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People that were a little nerdy in high school would look up to me and know it gets better.
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A lot of my cartoon voices are basically just variations on my natural voice.
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You make me wanna staple bagels to my face, then remove them with a pitchfork.
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I always try to put myself out of my comfort zone and out of my depth, and hopefully somewhere along the line I’ll catch up.
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I’ve done a movie and a TV series, and someday I’d like to do a successful movie and a successful TV series. That would be nice.
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And then I’ll try and arrange them in a way that they would tell a semi-cohesive story.
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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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I try not to go the obvious route all the time, but sometimes the most obvious is actually the best.
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