It’s hard to say, I picked one of my favorite articles for the MAD vault. Which is one of the features of the Magazine so they don’t have to actually pay artists or writers to come up with new stuff.
AL YANKOVICI always try to put myself out of my comfort zone and out of my depth, and hopefully somewhere along the line I’ll catch up.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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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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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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One of my pet peeves is that sometimes the talents of my band get overlooked because, and it was the same problem that Frank Zappa had, with a lot of groups that use humor, people don’t realize there’s a lot of craft behind the comedy.
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When I go to my live shows it’s often a multigenerational audience, a family bonding experience.
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It’s very much a “Weird Al” themed issue, so I’d like to think that there’s a lot of “Weird Al” flavor throughout but I think it’d be generous really to call me an editor.
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I don’t think there are any new media I’d like to cover.
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I don’t want to hear about this train being derailed! What happened to ‘The Flintstones’?’
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I knew we were having problems when you put those piranhas in my bathtub again.
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I was abducted by some aliens from space who kind a looked like Jamie Farr.
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I can’t say enough good things about my band. I feel very fortunate that I found them when I did, very early in my career.
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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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I am not making this up. Needless to say, as soon as I discovered that, I gave up meat entirely.
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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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I think my chances of ever making it into the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame are about as good as Milli Vanilli’s.
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I did have a child, and I was reading a lot of picture books to her, but at the same time writing a children’s book was something that I’d been wanting to do for many years, pretty much since the start of my career.
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