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.’
AL YANKOVICNot only are they just great, nice guys; they’re some of the best musicians you’re likely to find.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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A lot of my cartoon voices are basically just variations on my natural voice.
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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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I know now that everything I write, I’m going to put out, and I’ll have to live with it for the rest of my life.
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I know I’m a million times as humble as thou art!
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I don’t think there are any new media I’d like to cover.
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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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I mean, I hate to gloat, but I’m extremely satisfied with my position in life and the way things have worked out for me.
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Pop culture’s gotten much more disposable.
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I’m watching the charts every week and hoping something will pop into my head.
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I don’t want to hear about this train being derailed! What happened to ‘The Flintstones’?’
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My hobbies just sort of gradually became my vocation.
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On the other hand, I can get all the Metallica songs I want for FREE! WOW!
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It’s hard to say, I picked one of my favorite articles for the MAD vault. Which is one of the features of the Magazine so they don’t have to actually pay artists or writers to come up with new stuff.
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I dated Siamese twins, I slept with Big Foot, too. Get me on Sally Jesse, put me on Donahue.
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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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