I enjoy all kinds of music. But it is kind of strange when I do parodies, instead of setting up drums and guitar amps.
AL YANKOVICOne 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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You fake something until you’re good at it.
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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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I don’t want to pooh-pooh modern pop. I appreciate that as well, but my personal favorite kind of music is guitar-based rock. I like grunge and garage bands and alternative music, but that’s more my personal taste.
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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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The irony is of course that my career has lasted a whole lot longer than some of the people I’ve parodied over the years.
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Somebody will come up to me after a show and have me sign their arm, and the next time I see them my autograph has been permanently inscribed on their arm.
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Left all my Beatle records out in the sun, got a coke bottle stuck on the end of my tongue.
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I think my chances of ever making it into the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame are about as good as Milli Vanilli’s.
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Nows the time to go for all the gusto you can grab. You’ll have plenty of time to be low-key when you’re laid out on the slab.
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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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Now with internet culture it seems like everyone is doing music parodies. And they’re not all good!
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My hobbies just sort of gradually became my vocation.
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You can play some schlock like New Kids On the Block.
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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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How can you get bored if the audience is cheering and laughing at something you’re doing?
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