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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.

Al Yankovic

I don’t want to pooh-pooh modern pop. I appreciate that as well, but my personal favorite kind of music is guitar-based rock. I like grunge and garage bands and alternative music, but that’s more my personal taste.
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Appreciate Favorite Guitar Kind Modern Music Personal Pooh Pop
What kind of morons do you have working at newspapers in Austin that would base an entire review of an artist’s performance on whether or not they had a good seat?
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Artist Attention Austin Kind More Music
Because you’re supposed to lose yourself in the character, but sometimes people look at a character and go “Oh, it’s ‘Weird Al.'”
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Character Look People Sometimes Suppose Weird Yourself
You make me wanna staple bagels to my face, then remove them with a pitchfork.
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Bagel Face Pitchfork Remove Staple Wanna
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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Candidate Clever Enough Good Ostensibly Parody Song Think
I don’t like to label myself. I know I’m very hard to pigeonhole.
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Hard Know Label Like Myself Pigeon
No Joni Mitchell 8 track tapes in my car.
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Car No Tape Track
I start with a comprehensive list of all the recent songs that have been big hits – and then I go down that list and see if I can come up with funny ideas for them. I can always come up with ideas, but not necessarily good ones!
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Been Big Down Hit Idea List Recent Song
You got me stranded on the bungee tower of love.
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Bungee Love Lower Relationship Strand Tower
Doing things that I don’t know how to do, and keep doing them until I get good at them.
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Do Good Know Them Thing Until
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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Fright Ground Kitchen Light Love Pleasant Run Sound Squish
Got a brand new semi-automatic weapon with a laser sight. Oh, I’m praying that somebody tries to break in here tonight.
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Automatic Brand Laser Play Revenge Semi Sight Tonight Try
I’m a music fan, and I can listen to the radio, or music, without thinking, “How am I going to screw this up?” [Laughs] If I’m really actively trying to think of a parody, then I’ll have my antenna out, and be a little more proactive about it.
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Fan Go Laugh Radio Screw Think Try
Some people want to advertise their weirdness, and spread it out, that’s not me.
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Advertise Out People Want Some Spread Weird
Whenever I do a parody it’s not meant to make you hate anybody’s music really.
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Anybody Hate Make Music Parody Really
If something is good enough, it can be out there and people will see it.
AL YANKOVIC

Enough Good People See Something

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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