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.
AL YANKOVICI was able to come up with a couple articles for the magazine, I was able to solicit help from a bunch of my friends to contribute pieces: Patton Oswalt, Seth Green, Emo Phillips, Chris Hardwick, John Hodgman, and more.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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I enjoy all kinds of music. But it is kind of strange when I do parodies, instead of setting up drums and guitar amps.
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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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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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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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People never ask people doing serious music, ‘Do you ever think about doing funny music?’
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That’s a big part of my life – doing things that I’m not prepared to do.
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Maybe I’ll make a huge color tapestry from my belly button lint.
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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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Buy our album, were Nirvana, a garage band from Seattle. Well, it sure beats raising cattle.
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You fake something until you’re good at it.
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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’ve learned how to use my spam filter pretty effectively.
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I try not to go the obvious route all the time, but sometimes the most obvious is actually the best.
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Somebody will come up to me after a show and have me sign their arm, and the next time I see them my autograph has been permanently inscribed on their arm.
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I’m known for being an up, high-energy, and optimistic kind of guy.
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