Kind of wish I was dead. Maybe, I’ll blow my brains out, mama, or maybe I’ll go bowling.
AL YANKOVIC
Now with internet culture it seems like everyone is doing music parodies. And they’re not all good!
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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Kind of wish I was dead. Maybe, I’ll blow my brains out, mama, or maybe I’ll go bowling.
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I have a long-standing history of respecting artists’ wishes.
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I can bend paper clips into the shapes of small animals.
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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 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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By the time I’m in the studio recording my parody, 10,000 parodies of that song are on YouTube.
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I think that nerds, if you want to call them that, have only gotten more hip and assimilated into the culture.
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That’s something the kids should know about. Reading is a gateway to witchcraft and lesbianism.
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I don’t want to hear about this train being derailed! What happened to ‘The Flintstones’?’
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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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I’m always a little leery about doing shows where I’m not the headliner because when I first started playing in 1982 I opened for Missing Persons and got pelted for 45 minutes.
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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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There are probably a few library fines I haven’t paid yet, but I’m a pretty clean-cut guy overall.
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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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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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Now with internet culture it seems like everyone is doing music parodies. And they’re not all good!
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