Didn’t have Nintendo, we just poured salt on snails.
AL YANKOVICI don’t think there are any new media I’d like to cover.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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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.
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Now with internet culture it seems like everyone is doing music parodies. And they’re not all good!
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My wife went off with Elvis.
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Right now I’m listening to a lot of Top 40 music, because THAT’S MY JOB.
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Whenever I do a parody it’s not meant to make you hate anybody’s music really.
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I don’t really look at myself as the kind of person who craves attention, but I’ve never been to therapy so there’s probably a lot of stuff about myself that I don’t know.
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In a genre where most of the artists are one-hit wonders, I’ve been able to hang around longer than most “serious” acts. I pride myself in being a very talented leech.
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How can you get bored if the audience is cheering and laughing at something you’re doing?
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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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Kind of wish I was dead. Maybe, I’ll blow my brains out, mama, or maybe I’ll go bowling.
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When I swore that you’re getting more and more beautiful everyday. Well, I was only kidding, honey.
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You fake something until you’re good at it.
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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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A lot of my cartoon voices are basically just variations on my natural voice.
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I like the guitar-driven music of Nirvana at its peak. At that point, I thought there was a lot of really exciting music coming out.
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