I do a lot of different things, sometimes at the same time, and it’s very difficult to figure out where I fit.
AL YANKOVICI 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.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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I’ll be mellow when I’m dead.
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Doing things that I don’t know how to do, and keep doing them until I get good at them.
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If money can’t buy happiness, then I guess I’ll have to rent it.
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Right now I’m listening to a lot of Top 40 music, because THAT’S MY JOB.
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My personal taste doesn’t enter into it a lot when I make my decisions as to what to parody.
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A lot of my cartoon voices are basically just variations on my natural voice.
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Didn’t have Nintendo, we just poured salt on snails.
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There aren’t that many superstars around anymore.
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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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Many years ago I found out something about hamburgers that really grossed me out. You may not know this, so I hope I don’t make you sick, but it turns out hamburgers are actually made out of dead cows.
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You still have Top 40 radio now, but it’s 40 different stations. There aren’t many hits that everybody knows, and there aren’t many real superstars.
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I can’t get too offended when somebody parodies me.
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I’m a music fan, and I can listen to the radio, or music, without thinking, “How am I going to screw this up?” [Laughs] If I’m really actively trying to think of a parody, then I’ll have my antenna out, and be a little more proactive about it.
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In fact, when I come up with an idea for a parody I try to resist the urge to Google the idea to see if someone has done it already because the answer is almost always, “Yes, of course they have, they’ve thought of it!”
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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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