Because you’re supposed to lose yourself in the character, but sometimes people look at a character and go “Oh, it’s ‘Weird Al.'”
AL YANKOVICBy the time I’m in the studio recording my parody, 10,000 parodies of that song are on YouTube.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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Midget wrestling on channel 3, it costs me 50 bucks a month.
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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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You fake something until you’re good at it.
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You make me wanna staple bagels to my face, then remove them with a pitchfork.
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I’ve learned how to use my spam filter pretty effectively.
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I don’t like to label myself. I know I’m very hard to pigeonhole.
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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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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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When I go to my live shows it’s often a multigenerational audience, a family bonding experience.
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Probably 90 percent of my albums have polka medleys.
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No Joni Mitchell 8 track tapes in my car.
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One of my pet peeves is that sometimes the talents of my band get overlooked because, and it was the same problem that Frank Zappa had, with a lot of groups that use humor, people don’t realize there’s a lot of craft behind the comedy.
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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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I’m just a no-good, scum sucking, nose picking, boot licking, sniveling, groveling, worthless hunk of slime.
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I’ve always enjoyed animation and voiceover work. That’s something that I’ve been proactive about.
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