Ever since the day you left me, I’ve been so miserable, my dear. I feel almost as bad as I did when you were still here.
AL YANKOVICVelvet Elvis never puts on weight.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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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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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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People say releasing an album is like giving birth, but it’s more like having a gallbladder operation.
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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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I’m free to do what I please, I’m probably not going to do albums. Just because I think releasing tracks as singles is a better way for me to stay topical.
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I make charts of songs that are good candidates, good targets, so to speak.
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A lot of rap songs don’t usually have a lot of melody per se.
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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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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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Probably 90 percent of my albums have polka medleys.
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You don’t need to be defined by your job.
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So I’m one of the few celebrities that got to do a repeat performance on ‘The Simpsons,’ which I’m very flattered by.
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On the other hand, I can get all the Metallica songs I want for FREE! WOW!
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A lot of artists have really been supportive over the years.
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I have very mixed feelings about it. On one hand, I’m concerned that the rampant downloading of my copyright-protected material over the Internet is severely eating into my album sales and having a decidedly adverse effect on my career.
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