I’m always a little leery about doing shows where I’m not the headliner because when I first started playing in 1982 I opened for Missing Persons and got pelted for 45 minutes.
AL YANKOVICRight now I’m listening to a lot of Top 40 music, because THAT’S MY JOB.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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I think that nerds, if you want to call them that, have only gotten more hip and assimilated into the culture.
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Right now I’m listening to a lot of Top 40 music, because THAT’S MY JOB.
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My process for the parodies is that I get an idea for a song and then get approval from the artist and then go in and record it and probably try to get it out as soon as possible.
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I can bend paper clips into the shapes of small animals.
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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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So I try not to pick songs that I know would drive me crazy.
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They somehow didn’t see the need for an accordion player. That’s when I realized that I had to find my own path in life.
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I do a lot of different things, sometimes at the same time, and it’s very difficult to figure out where I fit.
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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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A lot of artists have really been supportive over the years.
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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 watching the charts every week and hoping something will pop into my head.
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Because you’re supposed to lose yourself in the character, but sometimes people look at a character and go “Oh, it’s ‘Weird Al.'”
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So that was a joke that I continue up to this very day.
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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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