In the ’80s, I was the only game in town, I was the only one getting that kind of exposure in any rotation on MTV.
AL YANKOVICMy personal taste doesn’t enter into it a lot when I make my decisions as to what to parody.
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Beans, beans, the magic legumes – the more you ingest, the more you consume.
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You can try on our suede underwear if you choose. Do what you want, but don’t step on my blue suede shoes.
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Ever since the day you left me, I’ve been so miserable, my dear. I feel almost as bad as I did when you were still here.
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People never ask people doing serious music, ‘Do you ever think about doing funny music?’
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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 done a movie and a TV series, and someday I’d like to do a successful movie and a successful TV series. That would be nice.
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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 was abducted by some aliens from space who kind a looked like Jamie Farr.
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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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My personal taste doesn’t enter into it a lot when I make my decisions as to what to parody.
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My velvet Elvis means the world to me. Although he may not be worth much dough, he means more to me than some old Rembrandt or Van Gogh.
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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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My own personal tastes don’t really have an effect on whether song is a parody target or not. But having said that,
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There are probably a few library fines I haven’t paid yet, but I’m a pretty clean-cut guy overall.
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I’m known for being an up, high-energy, and optimistic kind of guy.
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