I’ll be mellow when I’m dead.
AL YANKOVICThe music has always been my bread and butter, and I’ve focused more of my attention on that.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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I’ve always known that if I recorded an album, it would come out, and people would enjoy it!
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I can’t get too offended when somebody parodies me.
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My personal taste doesn’t enter into it a lot when I make my decisions as to what to parody.
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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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I mean, I hate to gloat, but I’m extremely satisfied with my position in life and the way things have worked out for me.
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That’s a big part of my life – doing things that I’m not prepared to do.
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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.
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I dated Siamese twins, I slept with Big Foot, too. Get me on Sally Jesse, put me on Donahue.
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I do original songs in the style of other artists, where I try to learn all their musical idiosyncrasies and try to do something that sounds like them and yet is a bit more sick and twisted.
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By the time I’m in the studio recording my parody, 10,000 parodies of that song are on YouTube.
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In the ’80s, I was the only game in town, I was the only one getting that kind of exposure in any rotation on MTV.
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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.
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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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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 know I’m a million times as humble as thou art!
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