I’m always a little leery about doing shows where I’m not the headliner because when I first started playing in 1982 I opened for Missing Persons and got pelted for 45 minutes.
AL YANKOVICI’d like to be able to be more topical and timely and more of-the-moment and I think the way to do that is, instead of waiting until I have twelve songs to release all at once, just to release them as I come up with them.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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You don’t need to be defined by your job.
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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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Left all my Beatle records out in the sun, got a coke bottle stuck on the end of my tongue.
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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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There aren’t that many superstars around anymore.
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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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Every night for dinner we had a big chunk of dirt.
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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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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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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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My hobbies just sort of gradually became my vocation.
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My wife went off with Elvis.
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So that was a joke that I continue up to this very day.
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I’ve always enjoyed animation and voiceover work. That’s something that I’ve been proactive about.
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As a wise man once said, “April Fools Day is for amateurs. You NEVER need an excuse to mess with people’s heads.”
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