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 YANKOVICIf money can’t buy happiness, then I guess I’ll have to rent it.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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I don’t want to hear about this train being derailed! What happened to ‘The Flintstones’?’
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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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It was difficult to get into my friends’ rock bands when I was a teenager.
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A lot of rap songs don’t usually have a lot of melody per se.
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He died a long painful death. However, you’ll be happy to hear that just a few years later he was reincarnated as Shirley MacLaine.
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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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When I swore that you’re getting more and more beautiful everyday. Well, I was only kidding, honey.
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Now with internet culture it seems like everyone is doing music parodies. And they’re not all good!
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Beans, beans, the magic legumes – the more you ingest, the more you consume.
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I think that nerds, if you want to call them that, have only gotten more hip and assimilated into the culture.
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I know I’m a million times as humble as thou art!
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If you want to avoid heated arguments, never discuss religion, politics, or whether the toilet paper roll should go over or under.
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It’s hard to force creativity and humor.
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I don’t want to pooh-pooh modern pop. I appreciate that as well, but my personal favorite kind of music is guitar-based rock. I like grunge and garage bands and alternative music, but that’s more my personal taste.
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I suppose I had my rock star fantasies while I was singing into my hairbrush in the bathroom mirror, but I never really consciously said, ‘OK, this is what I’m going to do for a living and I’m going to be Weird Al.’
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