I’ve learned how to use my spam filter pretty effectively.
AL YANKOVICMaybe I’ll make a huge color tapestry from my belly button lint.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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My brothers and sisters hated me because I was an only child.
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If money can’t buy happiness, then I guess I’ll have to rent it.
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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 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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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 dated Siamese twins, I slept with Big Foot, too. Get me on Sally Jesse, put me on Donahue.
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Now with internet culture it seems like everyone is doing music parodies. And they’re not all good!
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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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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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He died a long painful death. However, you’ll be happy to hear that just a few years later he was reincarnated as Shirley MacLaine.
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Nows the time to go for all the gusto you can grab. You’ll have plenty of time to be low-key when you’re laid out on the slab.
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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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So I try not to pick songs that I know would drive me crazy.
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I am not making this up. Needless to say, as soon as I discovered that, I gave up meat entirely.
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I can bend paper clips into the shapes of small animals.
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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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I have a long-standing history of respecting artists’ wishes.
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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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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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You can play some schlock like New Kids On the Block.
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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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I tend to enunciate pretty well. It’s always seemed that my voice is one of those voices that people can recognize pretty easily – which has been a bit of a drawback for some characters.
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The 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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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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So that was a joke that I continue up to this very day.
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So that’s why one of my rules of parody writing is that it’s gotta be funny regardless of whether you know the source material. It has to work on its own merit.
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