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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.

Al Yankovic

Beans, beans, the magic legumes – the more you ingest, the more you consume.
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Bean Consume Ingest Magic More
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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Everything Go Life Live Now Out Rest Write
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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Been Big Down Hit Idea List Recent Song
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.
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Bad Bookstore Look Point Record Scour Track Tribute Try
How can you get bored if the audience is cheering and laughing at something you’re doing?
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Audience Bore Cheer Do Parody Something
I don’t think there are any new media I’d like to cover.
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Any Cover Media New Think
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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Cut Fine Guy Library Overall Paid Pretty Probably
I do a lot of different things, sometimes at the same time, and it’s very difficult to figure out where I fit.
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Different Difficult Figure Out Same Sometimes Thing
Midget wrestling on channel 3, it costs me 50 bucks a month.
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Buck Channel Midget Month Wres
That’s something the kids should know about. Reading is a gateway to witchcraft and lesbianism.
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Gateway Kid Lesbian Read Something Witchcraft
The window doesn’t open, the fan is broke, and my face is turning blue. I haven’t been in a crowd like this since I went to see the Who.
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Ace Blue Broke Crowd Fan Open Since Turn Window
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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Able Article Bunch Come Couple Friend Magazine Solicit
I’ll be mellow when I’m dead.
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Dead Death Mellow Suicide
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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Career Course Iron Last Longer Over Parody People Year
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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Everybody Forty Know Radio Show Still Superstar
As my father used to tell me, the only true sign of success in life is being able to do for a living that which makes you happy.
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Able Dad Father Life Live Make Success
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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Fan Go Laugh Radio Screw Think Try
I knew we were having problems when you put those piranhas in my bathtub again.
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Again Bathtub Have Piranhas Problem Relationship
Like, I have had moments, which I think most people have, where you’ll be watching TV, and it’ll be interrupted by some tragic event, and you’ll actually find yourself thinking,
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Fin Yourself Interrupt Moment People Television Think Watch
I have very mixed feelings about it. On one hand, I’m concerned that the rampant downloading of my copyright-protected material over the Internet is severely eating into my album sales and having a decidedly adverse effect on my career.
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Career Concern Copyright Download Feel Hand MIxed One Rampant Song
A lot of rap songs don’t usually have a lot of melody per se.
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Melody Rap Song Usually
A lot of artists have really been supportive over the years.
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Artist Supportive Year
I’m very analytical, I’m very precise.
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Analytical Precise Very
I think I’m equally as abusive as the editors normally are for the “Letters and Tomatoes” column, which is the fan mail part of MAD Magazine and an ongoing feature.
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Abusive Column Editor Equally Letter Mad Normal Ongoing Think Tomato
When I go to my live shows it’s often a multigenerational audience, a family bonding experience.
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Experience Family Bond Live Show
I’m stranded all alone in the gas station of love, and I have to use the self service pump.
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Gas Pump Self Service Station Stranded Use
I suppose I had my rock star fantasies while I was singing into my hairbrush in the bathroom mirror, but I never really consciously said, ‘OK, this is what I’m going to do for a living and I’m going to be Weird Al.’
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Bathroom Fantastic Go Hairbrush Live Mirror OK Rock Sing Star Suppose Weird

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 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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