It was difficult to get into my friends’ rock bands when I was a teenager.
AL YANKOVICMy wife went off with Elvis.
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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 obviously not a rapper, and I don’t have any claims to be one, really.
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A lot of rap songs don’t usually have a lot of melody per se.
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I’m very analytical, I’m very precise.
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I do a lot of different things, sometimes at the same time, and it’s very difficult to figure out where I fit.
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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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There are probably a few library fines I haven’t paid yet, but I’m a pretty clean-cut guy overall.
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I can’t say enough good things about my band. I feel very fortunate that I found them when I did, very early in my career.
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You can play some schlock like New Kids On the Block.
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There’s a lot of different ways that a song would be a challenge to parody.
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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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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 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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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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People never ask people doing serious music, ‘Do you ever think about doing funny music?’
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