A lot of my cartoon voices are basically just variations on my natural voice.
AL YANKOVICYou fake something until you’re good at it.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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I was able to come up with a couple articles for the magazine, I was able to solicit help from a bunch of my friends to contribute pieces: Patton Oswalt, Seth Green, Emo Phillips, Chris Hardwick, John Hodgman, and more.
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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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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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Then I try to come up with ideas for parodies. And 99% of those ideas are horrible.
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They somehow didn’t see the need for an accordion player. That’s when I realized that I had to find my own path in life.
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It doesn’t take a military genius to see we’ll all be crispy critters after World War III.
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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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So then why get upset if somebody like me Tries to look at the world just a bit differently?
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On the other hand, I can get all the Metallica songs I want for FREE! WOW!
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I know I’m a million times as humble as thou art!
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A lot of artists have really been supportive over the years.
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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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There are probably a few library fines I haven’t paid yet, but I’m a pretty clean-cut guy overall.
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It’s hard to say, I picked one of my favorite articles for the MAD vault. Which is one of the features of the Magazine so they don’t have to actually pay artists or writers to come up with new stuff.
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I do original songs in the style of other artists, where I try to learn all their musical idiosyncrasies and try to do something that sounds like them and yet is a bit more sick and twisted.
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I can’t get too offended when somebody parodies me.
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You got me stranded on the bungee tower of love.
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Because you’re supposed to lose yourself in the character, but sometimes people look at a character and go “Oh, it’s ‘Weird Al.'”
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My brothers and sisters hated me because I was an only child.
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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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When I was a kid, I thought I was going to be an architect, because when I was 12 years old I had a guidance counselor that convinced me that that was the best career choice for me.
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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’ll be mellow when I’m dead.
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Velvet Elvis never puts on weight.
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So I try not to pick songs that I know would drive me crazy.
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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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