I try not to go the obvious route all the time, but sometimes the most obvious is actually the best.
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Not only are they just great, nice guys; they’re some of the best musicians you’re likely to find.
Al YankovicAl Yankovic So then why get upset if somebody like me Tries to look at the world just a bit differently?
Al YankovicAl Yankovic 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?
Al YankovicAl Yankovic In fact, when I come up with an idea for a parody I try to resist the urge to Google the idea to see if someone has done it already because the answer is almost always, “Yes, of course they have, they’ve thought of it!”
Al YankovicAl Yankovic People say releasing an album is like giving birth, but it’s more like having a gallbladder operation.
Al YankovicAl Yankovic I’m very analytical, I’m very precise.
Al YankovicAl Yankovic I think that was the genesis of my polka medleys, because every rock song I played on the accordion just sounded like a polka and my friends thought it was funny.
Al YankovicAl Yankovic Midget wrestling on channel 3, it costs me 50 bucks a month.
Al YankovicAl Yankovic 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.
Al YankovicAl Yankovic And then I’ll try and arrange them in a way that they would tell a semi-cohesive story.
Al YankovicAl Yankovic 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.
Al YankovicAl Yankovic If I could find the right kind of property, get tied in with the right movie, I’d love to be involved, but I just find it hard to be motivated to do another screenplay right now.
Al YankovicAl Yankovic 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.
Al YankovicAl Yankovic Then I try to come up with ideas for parodies. And 99% of those ideas are horrible.
Al YankovicAl Yankovic 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.
Al YankovicAl Yankovic I don’t like to label myself. I know I’m very hard to pigeonhole.
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