As my father used to tell me, the only true sign of success in life is being able to do for a living that which makes you happy.
AL YANKOVICAs a wise man once said, “April Fools Day is for amateurs. You NEVER need an excuse to mess with people’s heads.”
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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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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Ever since the day you left me, I’ve been so miserable, my dear. I feel almost as bad as I did when you were still here.
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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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If money can’t buy happiness, then I guess I’ll have to rent it.
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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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My brothers and sisters hated me because I was an only child.
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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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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.’
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Midget wrestling on channel 3, it costs me 50 bucks a month.
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I don’t watch anything on a regular basis – I tend to binge-watch things.
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Every night for dinner we had a big chunk of dirt.
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I have a long-standing history of respecting artists’ wishes.
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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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I like the guitar-driven music of Nirvana at its peak. At that point, I thought there was a lot of really exciting music coming out.
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Whereas if I wrote a movie script, chances are better than even that I’d just be another guy in L.A. with a movie script in his drawer.
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I think I’m equally as abusive as the editors normally are for the “Letters and Tomatoes” column, which is the fan mail part of MAD Magazine and an ongoing feature.
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I’m free to do what I please, I’m probably not going to do albums. Just because I think releasing tracks as singles is a better way for me to stay topical.
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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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Not only are they just great, nice guys; they’re some of the best musicians you’re likely to find.
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So I try not to pick songs that I know would drive me crazy.
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And then I’ll try and arrange them in a way that they would tell a semi-cohesive story.
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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’m known for being an up, high-energy, and optimistic kind of guy.
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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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No Joni Mitchell 8 track tapes in my car.
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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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