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.’
AL YANKOVICI’d like to be able to be more topical and timely and more of-the-moment and I think the way to do that is, instead of waiting until I have twelve songs to release all at once, just to release them as I come up with them.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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I’ve done a movie and a TV series, and someday I’d like to do a successful movie and a successful TV series. That would be nice.
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I cut my teeth playing rock songs on the accordion when I was a teenager and my friends always thought that was extremely amusing.
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Whenever I do a parody it’s not meant to make you hate anybody’s music really.
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So I try not to pick songs that I know would drive me crazy.
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I know now that everything I write, I’m going to put out, and I’ll have to live with it for the rest of my life.
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When I swore that you’re getting more and more beautiful everyday. Well, I was only kidding, honey.
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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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So that was a joke that I continue up to this very day.
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I’d rather clean all the bathrooms in Grand Central Station with my tongue than spend one more minute with you.
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There aren’t that many superstars around anymore.
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There’s enough people that do unfunny music. I’ll leave the serious stuff to Paris Hilton and Kevin Federline.
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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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That’s something the kids should know about. Reading is a gateway to witchcraft and lesbianism.
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I’d like to be able to be more topical and timely and more of-the-moment and I think the way to do that is, instead of waiting until I have twelve songs to release all at once, just to release them as I come up with them.
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Not any specific one, but I was a huge fan of Frank Jacobs, I guess he wrote the plurality of the song parodies for MAD, Sam Hart, a few others, but that was also where I was first exposed to the art form of song parodies.
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