I cut my teeth playing rock songs on the accordion when I was a teenager and my friends always thought that was extremely amusing.
AL YANKOVICI’m obviously not a rapper, and I don’t have any claims to be one, really.
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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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People never ask people doing serious music, ‘Do you ever think about doing funny music?’
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I’ve learned how to use my spam filter pretty effectively.
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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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I’ve always known that if I recorded an album, it would come out, and people would enjoy it!
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You can try on our suede underwear if you choose. Do what you want, but don’t step on my blue suede shoes.
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I don’t think there are any new media I’d like to cover.
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I try not to go the obvious route all the time, but sometimes the most obvious is actually the best.
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I love the way they run in fright when I turn on the kitchen light. And when I squish them on the ground, they make a pleasant crunchy sound.
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One of the hardest things I’ve had to deal with in my career is keeping my material topical even though I only release albums every three or four years.
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Pop culture’s gotten much more disposable.
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Then I try to come up with ideas for parodies. And 99% of those ideas are horrible.
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It doesn’t take a military genius to see we’ll all be crispy critters after World War III.
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It was difficult to get into my friends’ rock bands when I was a teenager.
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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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