Not only are they just great, nice guys; they’re some of the best musicians you’re likely to find.
AL YANKOVICThere are a lot of songs that would ostensibly be a good candidate for parody, yet I can’t think of a clever enough idea.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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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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Until you came along I never dated anyone this low on the food chain.
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People say releasing an album is like giving birth, but it’s more like having a gallbladder operation.
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It doesn’t take a military genius to see we’ll all be crispy critters after World War III.
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So that was a joke that I continue up to this very day.
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I write and write and write, and then I edit it down to the parts that I think are amusing, or that help the storyline, or I’ll write a notebook full of ideas of anecdotes or story points.
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I was a huge fan of ‘Mad’ magazine when I was 11, 12, 13 years old. I’d scour used bookstores trying to find back issues, and I’d wait at the newsstand for a new issue to come out. My life revolved around it.
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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’ll bet every great thinker and leader we’ve got Could see all kinds of things other people could not!
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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 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.
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I try to pick songs that I actually like because I realize that I have to live with these songs for a long time, from when I’m working on them in the studio to possibly playing them onstage for the rest of my life.
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There aren’t that many superstars around anymore.
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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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Every night for dinner we had a big chunk of dirt.
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I don’t watch anything on a regular basis – I tend to binge-watch things.
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Whereas if I wrote a movie script, chances are better than even that I’d just be another guy in L.A. with a movie script in his drawer.
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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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I think my chances of ever making it into the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame are about as good as Milli Vanilli’s.
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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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Whenever I do a parody it’s not meant to make you hate anybody’s music really.
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It’s hard to force creativity and humor.
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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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If something is good enough, it can be out there and people will see it.
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You still have Top 40 radio now, but it’s 40 different stations. There aren’t many hits that everybody knows, and there aren’t many real superstars.
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