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.
AL YANKOVICI like to think that I’ve gotten better at what I do. I spend more time and pay more attention to detail album after album. But pretty much it’s stayed the same.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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That’s a big part of my life – doing things that I’m not prepared to do.
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I’m very analytical, I’m very precise. I mean, I don’t write for kids.
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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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Not only are they just great, nice guys; they’re some of the best musicians you’re likely to find.
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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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I did have a child, and I was reading a lot of picture books to her, but at the same time writing a children’s book was something that I’d been wanting to do for many years, pretty much since the start of my career.
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You fake something until you’re good at it.
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It fit pretty nicely into my schedule because we’d pretty much finished the bulk of promotion for Mandatory Fun and were just getting geared up for the World Tour so this was a nice time for me to be working on it.
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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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As it turns out, there is a thing called the Internet, and stuff does go out there whether the suits like it or not.
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My hobbies just sort of gradually became my vocation.
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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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My wife went off with Elvis.
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He put Ben Gay inside my jock strap and filled my tooth paste tube up with glue.
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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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I’m just a no-good, scum sucking, nose picking, boot licking, sniveling, groveling, worthless hunk of slime.
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I’m watching the charts every week and hoping something will pop into my head.
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My own personal tastes don’t really have an effect on whether song is a parody target or not. But having said that,
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You can play some schlock like New Kids On the Block.
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I like to think that I’ve gotten better at what I do. I spend more time and pay more attention to detail album after album. But pretty much it’s stayed the same.
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I start with a comprehensive list of all the recent songs that have been big hits – and then I go down that list and see if I can come up with funny ideas for them. I can always come up with ideas, but not necessarily good ones!
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They do everything from gangsta rap to polka music and every genre in between. It’s amazing.
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Didn’t have Nintendo, we just poured salt on snails.
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There’s enough people that do unfunny music. I’ll leave the serious stuff to Paris Hilton and Kevin Federline.
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So I’m one of the few celebrities that got to do a repeat performance on ‘The Simpsons,’ which I’m very flattered by.
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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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