I decided that I wanted to be a voice on every animated cartoon in the history of the world – even shows that haven’t been on the air for a very long time, that’s going to be harder to pull off.
AL YANKOVICAt 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.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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I’ve done a movie and a TV series, and someday I’d like to do a successful movie and a successful TV series. That would be nice.
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I can bend paper clips into the shapes of small animals.
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I like to think that I’ve gotten better at what I do. I spend more time and pay more attention to detail album after album. But pretty much it’s stayed the same.
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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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Right now I’m listening to a lot of Top 40 music, because THAT’S MY JOB.
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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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Until you came along I never dated anyone this low on the food chain.
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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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So then why get upset if somebody like me Tries to look at the world just a bit differently?
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My own personal tastes don’t really have an effect on whether song is a parody target or not. But having said that,
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I’m very analytical, I’m very precise. I mean, I don’t write for kids.
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I’m obviously not a rapper, and I don’t have any claims to be one, really.
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I don’t like to label myself. I know I’m very hard to pigeonhole.
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I cut my teeth playing rock songs on the accordion when I was a teenager and my friends always thought that was extremely amusing.
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