Al Yankovic Quotes, People Quotes, Leader Quotes

I'll bet every great thinker and leader we've got Could see all kinds of things other people could not! So then why get upset if somebody like me Tries to look at the world just a bit differently?

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I like to think that I've gotten better at what I do. I spend more time and pay more attention to detail album after album. But pretty much it's stayed the same.

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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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It's hard to really articulate what the parameters are that make one song parody-able and another song not, but if I can come up with a good enough idea for it, I go for it, and if not, then I have to move on.

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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 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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You fake something until you're good at it.

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As my father used to tell me, the only true sign of success in life is being able to do for a living that which makes you happy.

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I'm free to do what I please, I'm probably not going to do albums. Just because I think releasing tracks as singles is a better way for me to stay topical.

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I've done a movie and a TV series, and someday I'd like to do a successful movie and a successful TV series. That would be nice.

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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, 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. So I try not to pick songs that I know would drive me crazy.

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When I go to my live shows it's often a multigenerational audience, a family bonding experience.

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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 becomes more important to me as time goes on to make every album the best thing I've ever done, so it's a lot of self-imposed pressure that also kind of slows me down a bit.

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The music has always been my bread and butter, and I've focused more of my attention on that.

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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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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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I knew we were having problems when you put those piranhas in my bathtub again.

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I don't like to label myself. I know I'm very hard to pigeonhole.

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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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People never ask people doing serious music, 'Do you ever think about doing funny music?'

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