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.
AL YANKOVICThe music has always been my bread and butter, and I’ve focused more of my attention on that.
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On the other hand, I can get all the Metallica songs I want for FREE! WOW!
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Whenever I do a parody it’s not meant to make you hate anybody’s music really.
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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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Midget wrestling on channel 3, it costs me 50 bucks a month.
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Because you’re supposed to lose yourself in the character, but sometimes people look at a character and go “Oh, it’s ‘Weird Al.'”
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I know now that everything I write, I’m going to put out, and I’ll have to live with it for the rest of my life.
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I don’t like to label myself. I know I’m very hard to pigeonhole.
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Buy our album, were Nirvana, a garage band from Seattle. Well, it sure beats raising cattle.
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It fit pretty nicely into my schedule because we’d pretty much finished the bulk of promotion for Mandatory Fun and were just getting geared up for the World Tour so this was a nice time for me to be working on it.
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Maybe I’ll make a huge color tapestry from my belly button lint.
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I’m still a geek on the inside, that’s the important thing.
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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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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 love the way they run in fright when I turn on the kitchen light. And when I squish them on the ground, they make a pleasant crunchy sound.
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I’m stranded all alone in the gas station of love, and I have to use the self service pump.
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