I’d like to be able to be more topical and timely and more of-the-moment and I think the way to do that is, instead of waiting until I have twelve songs to release all at once, just to release them as I come up with them.
AL YANKOVICBecause you’re supposed to lose yourself in the character, but sometimes people look at a character and go “Oh, it’s ‘Weird Al.'”
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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Until you came along I never dated anyone this low on the food chain.
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I’d rather clean all the bathrooms in Grand Central Station with my tongue than spend one more minute with you.
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Left all my Beatle records out in the sun, got a coke bottle stuck on the end of my tongue.
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Some songs are too repetitive for me to be able to fashion a humorous set of lyrics around. Some songs flat-out just don’t work creatively for me.
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A lot of my cartoon voices are basically just variations on my natural voice.
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I’m free to do what I please, I’m probably not going to do albums. Just because I think releasing tracks as singles is a better way for me to stay topical.
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I don’t want to hear about this train being derailed! What happened to ‘The Flintstones’?’
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About four or five months ago, at a dinner in New York, John made the very nice offer of my being guest editor for an issue of MAD and I thought about it for about half a nanosecond and decided that was a pretty good idea.
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That’s something the kids should know about. Reading is a gateway to witchcraft and lesbianism.
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I think that nerds, if you want to call them that, have only gotten more hip and assimilated into the culture.
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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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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 hobbies just sort of gradually became my vocation.
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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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It’s hard to really articulate what the parameters are that make one song parody-able and another song not, but if I can come up with a good enough idea for it, I go for it, and if not, then I have to move on.
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