A lot of my cartoon voices are basically just variations on my natural voice.
AL YANKOVICIt becomes more important to me as time goes on to make every album the best thing I’ve ever done, so it’s a lot of self-imposed pressure that also kind of slows me down a bit.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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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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I’m an ugly girl, My face makes you hurl, Sad I have it, I should bag it. Acne everywhere, Unwanted facial hair. I’m a relation to Frankenstein’s creation.
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I enjoy all kinds of music. But it is kind of strange when I do parodies, instead of setting up drums and guitar amps.
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My hobbies just sort of gradually became my vocation.
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Not only are they just great, nice guys; they’re some of the best musicians you’re likely to find.
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When I started out, I didn’t feel like I was really accepted in the music or comedy communities, and I was somewhere on the edge, but now I feel like I’m accepted in both, which is extremely gratifying.
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I like the guitar-driven music of Nirvana at its peak. At that point, I thought there was a lot of really exciting music coming out.
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Whenever I do a parody it’s not meant to make you hate anybody’s music really.
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You got me stranded on the bungee tower of love.
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You still have Top 40 radio now, but it’s 40 different stations. There aren’t many hits that everybody knows, and there aren’t many real superstars.
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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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The irony is of course that my career has lasted a whole lot longer than some of the people I’ve parodied over the years.
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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 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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Nows the time to go for all the gusto you can grab. You’ll have plenty of time to be low-key when you’re laid out on the slab.
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I can’t get too offended when somebody parodies me.
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I make charts of songs that are good candidates, good targets, so to speak.
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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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By the time I’m in the studio recording my parody, 10,000 parodies of that song are on YouTube.
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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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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 have a long-standing history of respecting artists’ wishes.
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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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A lot of rap songs don’t usually have a lot of melody per se.
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Some people want to advertise their weirdness, and spread it out, that’s not me.
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It was difficult to get into my friends’ rock bands when I was a teenager.
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