I think my chances of ever making it into the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame are about as good as Milli Vanilli’s.
AL YANKOVICI think my chances of ever making it into the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame are about as good as Milli Vanilli’s.
AL YANKOVICI know I’m a million times as humble as thou art!
AL YANKOVICI was a huge fan of ‘Mad’ magazine when I was 11, 12, 13 years old. I’d scour used bookstores trying to find back issues, and I’d wait at the newsstand for a new issue to come out. My life revolved around it.
AL YANKOVICBeans, beans, the magic legumes – the more you ingest, the more you consume.
AL YANKOVICNot 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.
AL YANKOVICI enjoy all kinds of music. But it is kind of strange when I do parodies, instead of setting up drums and guitar amps.
AL YANKOVICPeople that were a little nerdy in high school would look up to me and know it gets better.
AL YANKOVICSome people want to advertise their weirdness, and spread it out, that’s not me.
AL YANKOVICRight now I’m listening to a lot of Top 40 music, because THAT’S MY JOB.
AL YANKOVICYou still have Top 40 radio now, but it’s 40 different stations. There aren’t many hits that everybody knows, and there aren’t many real superstars.
AL YANKOVICSo that was a joke that I continue up to this very day.
AL YANKOVICI’d rather clean all the bathrooms in Grand Central Station with my tongue than spend one more minute with you.
AL YANKOVICI think that nerds, if you want to call them that, have only gotten more hip and assimilated into the culture.
AL YANKOVICBecause you’re supposed to lose yourself in the character, but sometimes people look at a character and go “Oh, it’s ‘Weird Al.'”
AL YANKOVICI decided that I wanted to be a voice on every animated cartoon in the history of the world – even shows that haven’t been on the air for a very long time, that’s going to be harder to pull off.
AL YANKOVICLeft all my Beatle records out in the sun, got a coke bottle stuck on the end of my tongue.
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