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Probably 90 percent of my albums have polka medleys.

Al Yankovic

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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On the other hand, I can get all the Metallica songs I want for FREE! WOW!
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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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I’m obviously not a rapper, and I don’t have any claims to be one, really.
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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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I know I’m a million times as humble as thou art!
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So that’s why one of my rules of parody writing is that it’s gotta be funny regardless of whether you know the source material. It has to work on its own merit.
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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.
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I can’t get too offended when somebody parodies me.
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I know now that everything I write, I’m going to put out, and I’ll have to live with it for the rest of my life.
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One of my pet peeves is that sometimes the talents of my band get overlooked because, and it was the same problem that Frank Zappa had, with a lot of groups that use humor, people don’t realize there’s a lot of craft behind the comedy.
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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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A lot of artists have really been supportive over the years.
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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 cut my teeth playing rock songs on the accordion when I was a teenager and my friends always thought that was extremely amusing.
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I’ll bet every great thinker and leader we’ve got Could see all kinds of things other people could not!
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