I tend to enunciate pretty well. It’s always seemed that my voice is one of those voices that people can recognize pretty easily – which has been a bit of a drawback for some characters.
AL YANKOVICI am not making this up. Needless to say, as soon as I discovered that, I gave up meat entirely.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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I always try to put myself out of my comfort zone and out of my depth, and hopefully somewhere along the line I’ll catch up.
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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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So then why get upset if somebody like me Tries to look at the world just a bit differently?
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So that’s why one of my rules of parody writing is that it’s gotta be funny regardless of whether you know the source material. It has to work on its own merit.
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You slammed my face down on the barbecue grill, now my scars are all healing, but my heart never will.
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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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So that was a joke that I continue up to this very day.
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Sometimes I get, “Have you ever thought about doing real music?” I like to think the music I do is real, it just happens to be funny.
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Velvet Elvis never puts on weight.
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A lot of my cartoon voices are basically just variations on my natural voice.
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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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My personal taste doesn’t enter into it a lot when I make my decisions as to what to parody.
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There’s enough people that do unfunny music. I’ll leave the serious stuff to Paris Hilton and Kevin Federline.
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I’d like to be able to be more topical and timely and more of-the-moment and I think the way to do that is, instead of waiting until I have twelve songs to release all at once, just to release them as I come up with them.
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Beans, beans, the magic legumes – the more you ingest, the more you consume.
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