And then I’ll try and arrange them in a way that they would tell a semi-cohesive story.
AL YANKOVICOne of the hardest things I’ve had to deal with in my career is keeping my material topical even though I only release albums every three or four years.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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I know I’m a million times as humble as thou art!
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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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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 don’t think there are any new media I’d like to cover.
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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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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 think that nerds, if you want to call them that, have only gotten more hip and assimilated into the culture.
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When I was a kid, I thought I was going to be an architect, because when I was 12 years old I had a guidance counselor that convinced me that that was the best career choice for me.
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As a kid, I certainly never thought I would get to spend my life doing something fun.
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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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One of my pet peeves is that sometimes the talents of my band get overlooked because, and it was the same problem that Frank Zappa had, with a lot of groups that use humor, people don’t realize there’s a lot of craft behind the comedy.
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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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I’m watching the charts every week and hoping something will pop into my head.
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You can play some schlock like New Kids On the Block.
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In a genre where most of the artists are one-hit wonders, I’ve been able to hang around longer than most “serious” acts. I pride myself in being a very talented leech.
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