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.
AL YANKOVICUntil you came along I never dated anyone this low on the food chain.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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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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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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I’m just a no-good, scum sucking, nose picking, boot licking, sniveling, groveling, worthless hunk of slime.
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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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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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And then I’ll try and arrange them in a way that they would tell a semi-cohesive story.
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I make charts of songs that are good candidates, good targets, so to speak.
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At this point I’ve got a bit of a track record. So people realize that when ‘Weird Al’ wants to go parody, it’s not meant to make them look bad… it’s meant to be a tribute.
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Midget wrestling on channel 3, it costs me 50 bucks a month.
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No Joni Mitchell 8 track tapes in my car.
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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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As my father used to tell me, the only true sign of success in life is being able to do for a living that which makes you happy.
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As 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 was able to come up with a couple articles for the magazine, I was able to solicit help from a bunch of my friends to contribute pieces: Patton Oswalt, Seth Green, Emo Phillips, Chris Hardwick, John Hodgman, and more.
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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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