One 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.
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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Got a brand new semi-automatic weapon with a laser sight. Oh, I’m praying that somebody tries to break in here tonight.
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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 don’t want to hear about this train being derailed! What happened to ‘The Flintstones’?’
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So I try not to pick songs that I know would drive me crazy.
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Beans, beans, the magic legumes – the more you ingest, the more you consume.
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It was difficult to get into my friends’ rock bands when I was a teenager.
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It’s very much a “Weird Al” themed issue, so I’d like to think that there’s a lot of “Weird Al” flavor throughout but I think it’d be generous really to call me an editor.
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If money can’t buy happiness, then I guess I’ll have to rent it.
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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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I can’t say enough good things about my band. I feel very fortunate that I found them when I did, very early in my career.
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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 guess I lost a little bit of self-esteem that time that you made it with the whole hockey team.
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I don’t watch a lot of other people’s parodies because I don’t want to be unduly influenced.
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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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I can’t get too offended when somebody parodies me.
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