There are probably a few library fines I haven’t paid yet, but I’m a pretty clean-cut guy overall.
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More Al Yankovic Quotes
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It fit pretty nicely into my schedule because we’d pretty much finished the bulk of promotion for Mandatory Fun and were just getting geared up for the World Tour so this was a nice time for me to be working on it.
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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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Ever since the day you left me, I’ve been so miserable, my dear. I feel almost as bad as I did when you were still here.
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I’m known for being an up, high-energy, and optimistic kind of guy.
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I do original songs in the style of other artists, where I try to learn all their musical idiosyncrasies and try to do something that sounds like them and yet is a bit more sick and twisted.
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They somehow didn’t see the need for an accordion player. That’s when I realized that I had to find my own path in life.
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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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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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No Joni Mitchell 8 track tapes in my car.
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The irony is of course that my career has lasted a whole lot longer than some of the people I’ve parodied over the years.
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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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When I was a kid, I thought I was going to be an architect, because when I was 12 years old I had a guidance counselor that convinced me that that was the best career choice for me.
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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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If I could find the right kind of property, get tied in with the right movie, I’d love to be involved, but I just find it hard to be motivated to do another screenplay right now.
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If money can’t buy happiness, then I guess I’ll have to rent it.
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