I have a long-standing history of respecting artists’ wishes.
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Buy our album, were Nirvana, a garage band from Seattle. Well, it sure beats raising cattle.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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I have a long-standing history of respecting artists’ wishes.
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Every night for dinner we had a big chunk of dirt.
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People never ask people doing serious music, ‘Do you ever think about doing funny music?’
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They do everything from gangsta rap to polka music and every genre in between. It’s amazing.
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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!”
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I’m stranded all alone in the gas station of love, and I have to use the self service pump.
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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.’
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I’ve always enjoyed animation and voiceover work. That’s something that I’ve been proactive about.
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I don’t think there are any new media I’d like to cover.
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My wife went off with Elvis.
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A lot of artists have really been supportive over the years.
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I can’t say enough good things about my band. I feel very fortunate that I found them when I did, very early in my career.
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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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Well I’ve made no secret of my life long love of MAD Magazine, it’s probably my first and greatest influence in terms of my comic sensibilities. I’ve known John [Ficarra] for many years, and we’ve been friends.
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It 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.
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