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.
AL YANKOVICI’m very analytical, I’m very precise.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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Maybe I’ll make a huge color tapestry from my belly button lint.
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There are a lot of songs that would ostensibly be a good candidate for parody, yet I can’t think of a clever enough idea.
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I’m obviously not a rapper, and I don’t have any claims to be one, really.
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I can bend paper clips into the shapes of small animals.
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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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Midget wrestling on channel 3, it costs me 50 bucks a month.
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Boys like Peter are afraid of alot of things, like nuclear annihilation and flunking algebra, but they’re not afraid of wolves.
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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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I was a huge fan of ‘Mad’ magazine when I was 11, 12, 13 years old. I’d scour used bookstores trying to find back issues, and I’d wait at the newsstand for a new issue to come out. My life revolved around it.
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A lot of artists have really been supportive over the years.
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They somehow didn’t see the need for an accordion player. That’s when I realized that I had to find my own path in life.
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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 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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I don’t watch anything on a regular basis – I tend to binge-watch things.
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I’ll be mellow when I’m dead.
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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 am not making this up. Needless to say, as soon as I discovered that, I gave up meat entirely.
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I love the way they run in fright when I turn on the kitchen light. And when I squish them on the ground, they make a pleasant crunchy sound.
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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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By the time I’m in the studio recording my parody, 10,000 parodies of that song are on YouTube.
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And then I’ll try and arrange them in a way that they would tell a semi-cohesive story.
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I’ve always known that if I recorded an album, it would come out, and people would enjoy it!
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Now with internet culture it seems like everyone is doing music parodies. And they’re not all good!
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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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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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The music has always been my bread and butter, and I’ve focused more of my attention on that.
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