They do everything from gangsta rap to polka music and every genre in between. It’s amazing.
AL YANKOVICI’ve always known that if I recorded an album, it would come out, and people would enjoy it!
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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My hobbies just sort of gradually became my vocation.
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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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A lot of artists have really been supportive over the years.
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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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I don’t want to pooh-pooh modern pop. I appreciate that as well, but my personal favorite kind of music is guitar-based rock. I like grunge and garage bands and alternative music, but that’s more my personal taste.
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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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I’m known for being an up, high-energy, and optimistic kind of guy.
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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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One 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.
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A lot of rap songs don’t usually have a lot of melody per se.
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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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I’ve done a movie and a TV series, and someday I’d like to do a successful movie and a successful TV series. That would be nice.
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It’s hard to force creativity and humor.
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I write and write and write, and then I edit it down to the parts that I think are amusing, or that help the storyline, or I’ll write a notebook full of ideas of anecdotes or story points.
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I can’t say enough good things about my band. I feel very fortunate that I found them when I did, very early in my career.
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Until you came along I never dated anyone this low on the food chain.
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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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I’d rather clean all the bathrooms in Grand Central Station with my tongue than spend one more minute with you.
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I’ve learned how to use my spam filter pretty effectively.
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Didn’t have Nintendo, we just poured salt on snails.
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I’m very analytical, I’m very precise. I mean, I don’t write for kids.
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Take down those naked pictures of Ernest Borgnine.
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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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Probably 90 percent of my albums have polka medleys.
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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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When I go to my live shows it’s often a multigenerational audience, a family bonding experience.
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