A lot of rap songs don’t usually have a lot of melody per se.
AL YANKOVICMy personal taste doesn’t enter into it a lot when I make my decisions as to what to parody.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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People say releasing an album is like giving birth, but it’s more like having a gallbladder operation.
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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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Buy our album, were Nirvana, a garage band from Seattle. Well, it sure beats raising cattle.
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So I try not to pick songs that I know would drive me crazy.
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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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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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Doing things that I don’t know how to do, and keep doing them until I get good at them.
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The window doesn’t open, the fan is broke, and my face is turning blue. I haven’t been in a crowd like this since I went to see the Who.
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There’s enough people that do unfunny music. I’ll leave the serious stuff to Paris Hilton and Kevin Federline.
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Whereas if I wrote a movie script, chances are better than even that I’d just be another guy in L.A. with a movie script in his drawer.
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I am not making this up. Needless to say, as soon as I discovered that, I gave up meat entirely.
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As it turns out, there is a thing called the Internet, and stuff does go out there whether the suits like it or not.
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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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So I’m one of the few celebrities that got to do a repeat performance on ‘The Simpsons,’ which I’m very flattered by.
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That’s a big part of my life – doing things that I’m not prepared to do.
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