Sometimes I get, “Have you ever thought about doing real music?” I like to think the music I do is real, it just happens to be funny.
AL YANKOVICI dated Siamese twins, I slept with Big Foot, too. Get me on Sally Jesse, put me on Donahue.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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My hobbies just sort of gradually became my vocation.
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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 always enjoyed animation and voiceover work. That’s something that I’ve been proactive about.
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By the time I’m in the studio recording my parody, 10,000 parodies of that song are on YouTube.
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You got me stranded on the bungee tower of love.
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I make charts of songs that are good candidates, good targets, so to speak.
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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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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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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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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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A lot of my cartoon voices are basically just variations on my natural voice.
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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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If something is good enough, it can be out there and people will see it.
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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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So then why get upset if somebody like me Tries to look at the world just a bit differently?
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They do everything from gangsta rap to polka music and every genre in between. It’s amazing.
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I don’t want to hear about this train being derailed! What happened to ‘The Flintstones’?’
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I like to think that I’ve gotten better at what I do. I spend more time and pay more attention to detail album after album. But pretty much it’s stayed the same.
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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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If money can’t buy happiness, then I guess I’ll have to rent it.
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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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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’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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Right now I’m listening to a lot of Top 40 music, because THAT’S MY JOB.
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I think that was the genesis of my polka medleys, because every rock song I played on the accordion just sounded like a polka and my friends thought it was funny.
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As much as people are griping about the Internet taking sales away from artists, it’s been a huge promotional tool for me.
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