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 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.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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When I was a kid, I thought I was going to be an architect, because when I was 12 years old I had a guidance counselor that convinced me that that was the best career choice for me.
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I was abducted by some aliens from space who kind a looked like Jamie Farr.
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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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And then I’ll try and arrange them in a way that they would tell a semi-cohesive story.
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You can play some schlock like New Kids On the Block.
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I’ve always enjoyed animation and voiceover work. That’s something that I’ve been proactive about.
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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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A lot of rap songs don’t usually have a lot of melody per se.
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You fake something until you’re good at it.
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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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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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In a genre where most of the artists are one-hit wonders, I’ve been able to hang around longer than most “serious” acts. I pride myself in being a very talented leech.
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No Joni Mitchell 8 track tapes in my car.
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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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He put Ben Gay inside my jock strap and filled my tooth paste tube up with glue.
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My hobbies just sort of gradually became my vocation.
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Boys like Peter are afraid of alot of things, like nuclear annihilation and flunking algebra, but they’re not afraid of wolves.
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I don’t want to hear about this train being derailed! What happened to ‘The Flintstones’?’
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I don’t watch anything on a regular basis – I tend to binge-watch things.
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It becomes more important to me as time goes on to make every album the best thing I’ve ever done, so it’s a lot of self-imposed pressure that also kind of slows me down a bit.
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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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It’s hard to say, I picked one of my favorite articles for the MAD vault. Which is one of the features of the Magazine so they don’t have to actually pay artists or writers to come up with new stuff.
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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’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.
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I always try to put myself out of my comfort zone and out of my depth, and hopefully somewhere along the line I’ll catch up.
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Take down those naked pictures of Ernest Borgnine.
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