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.
AL YANKOVICA lot of my cartoon voices are basically just variations on my natural voice.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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It becomes more important to me as time goes on to make every album the best thing I’ve ever done, so it’s a lot of self-imposed pressure that also kind of slows me down a bit.
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So that was a joke that I continue up to this very day.
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People never ask people doing serious music, ‘Do you ever think about doing funny music?’
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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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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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Whereas if I wrote a movie script, chances are better than even that I’d just be another guy in L.A. with a movie script in his drawer.
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So then why get upset if somebody like me Tries to look at the world just a bit differently?
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I was abducted by some aliens from space who kind a looked like Jamie Farr.
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The music has always been my bread and butter, and I’ve focused more of my attention on that.
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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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I make charts of songs that are good candidates, good targets, so to speak.
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Buy our album, were Nirvana, a garage band from Seattle. Well, it sure beats raising cattle.
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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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As a wise man once said, “April Fools Day is for amateurs. You NEVER need an excuse to mess with people’s heads.”
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You don’t need to be defined by your job.
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