I was able to come up with a couple articles for the magazine, I was able to solicit help from a bunch of my friends to contribute pieces: Patton Oswalt, Seth Green, Emo Phillips, Chris Hardwick, John Hodgman, and more.
AL YANKOVICI 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.’
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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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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Doing things that I don’t know how to do, and keep doing them until I get good at them.
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There are a lot of songs that would ostensibly be a good candidate for parody, yet I can’t think of a clever enough idea.
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He died a long painful death. However, you’ll be happy to hear that just a few years later he was reincarnated as Shirley MacLaine.
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You make me wanna staple bagels to my face, then remove them with a pitchfork.
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I’m an ugly girl, My face makes you hurl, Sad I have it, I should bag it. Acne everywhere, Unwanted facial hair. I’m a relation to Frankenstein’s creation.
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How can you get bored if the audience is cheering and laughing at something you’re doing?
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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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I guess I lost a little bit of self-esteem that time that you made it with the whole hockey team.
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Now with internet culture it seems like everyone is doing music parodies. And they’re not all good!
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I have a long-standing history of respecting artists’ wishes.
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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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Not only are they just great, nice guys; they’re some of the best musicians you’re likely to find.
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Some songs are too repetitive for me to be able to fashion a humorous set of lyrics around. Some songs flat-out just don’t work creatively for me.
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Buy our album, were Nirvana, a garage band from Seattle. Well, it sure beats raising cattle.
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