It doesn’t take a military genius to see we’ll all be crispy critters after World War III.
AL YANKOVICAs much as people are griping about the Internet taking sales away from artists, it’s been a huge promotional tool for me.
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I tend to enunciate pretty well. It’s always seemed that my voice is one of those voices that people can recognize pretty easily – which has been a bit of a drawback for some characters.
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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 can’t get too offended when somebody parodies me.
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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 think that was the genesis of my polka medleys, because every rock song I played on the accordion just sounded like a polka and my friends thought it was funny.
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People never ask people doing serious music, ‘Do you ever think about doing funny music?’
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Some people want to advertise their weirdness, and spread it out, that’s not me.
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It’s hard to force creativity and humor.
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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 try to pick songs that I actually like because I realize that I have to live with these songs for a long time, from when I’m working on them in the studio to possibly playing them onstage for the rest of my life.
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You fake something until you’re good at it.
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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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As a kid, I certainly never thought I would get to spend my life doing something fun.
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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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Midget wrestling on channel 3, it costs me 50 bucks a month.
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