In the ’80s, I was putting out an album virtually every year, I think mostly based on fear – that if I didn’t, people would soon forget about me.
AL YANKOVICI 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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I make charts of songs that are good candidates, good targets, so to speak.
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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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Right now I’m listening to a lot of Top 40 music, because THAT’S MY JOB.
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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.
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I’ll bet every great thinker and leader we’ve got Could see all kinds of things other people could not!
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Buy our album, were Nirvana, a garage band from Seattle. Well, it sure beats raising cattle.
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I write and write and write, and then I edit it down to the parts that I think are amusing, or that help the storyline, or I’ll write a notebook full of ideas of anecdotes or story points.
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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 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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Sometimes I get, “Have you ever thought about doing real music?” I like to think the music I do is real, it just happens to be funny.
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It doesn’t take a military genius to see we’ll all be crispy critters after World War III.
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You still have Top 40 radio now, but it’s 40 different stations. There aren’t many hits that everybody knows, and there aren’t many real superstars.
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I’m an ugly girl, My face makes you hurl, Sad I have it, I should bag it. Acne everywhere, Unwanted facial hair. I’m a relation to Frankenstein’s creation.
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On the other hand, I can get all the Metallica songs I want for FREE! WOW!
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I was abducted by some aliens from space who kind a looked like Jamie Farr.
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