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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More Al Yankovic Quotes
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That’s a big part of my life – doing things that I’m not prepared to do.
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Pop culture’s gotten much more disposable.
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So I’m one of the few celebrities that got to do a repeat performance on ‘The Simpsons,’ which I’m very flattered by.
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People that were a little nerdy in high school would look up to me and know it gets better.
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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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As it turns out, there is a thing called the Internet, and stuff does go out there whether the suits like it or not.
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Midget wrestling on channel 3, it costs me 50 bucks a month.
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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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Somebody will come up to me after a show and have me sign their arm, and the next time I see them my autograph has been permanently inscribed on their arm.
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I don’t watch a lot of other people’s parodies because I don’t want to be unduly influenced.
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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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Not any specific one, but I was a huge fan of Frank Jacobs, I guess he wrote the plurality of the song parodies for MAD, Sam Hart, a few others, but that was also where I was first exposed to the art form of song parodies.
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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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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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A lot of rap songs don’t usually have a lot of melody per se.
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