Al Yankovic Quotes, Honesty Quotes, Nintendo Quotes

Didn't have Nintendo, we just poured salt on snails.

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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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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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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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My personal taste doesn't enter into it a lot when I make my decisions as to what to parody.

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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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There's a lot of different ways that a song would be a challenge to parody. There are a lot of songs that would ostensibly be a good candidate for parody, yet I can't think of a clever enough idea. Some songs are too repetitive for me to be able to fashion a humorous set of lyrics around. Some songs flat-out just don't work creatively for me.

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Beans, beans, the magic legumes - the more you ingest, the more you consume.

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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, and then I'll try and arrange them in a way that they would tell a semi-cohesive story.

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I'm obviously not a rapper, and I don't have any claims to be one, really.

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Many years ago I found out something about hamburgers that really grossed me out. You may not know this, so I hope I don’t make you sick, but it turns out hamburgers are actually made out of dead cows. I am not making this up. Needless to say, as soon as I discovered that, I gave up meat entirely.

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Some people want to advertise their weirdness, and spread it out, that's not me.

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A lot of my cartoon voices are basically just variations on my natural voice.

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What kind of morons do you have working at newspapers in Austin that would base an entire review of an artist's performance on whether or not they had a good seat?

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It's hard to say, I picked one of my favorite articles for the MAD vault. Which is one of the features of the Magazine so they don't have to actually pay artists or writers to come up with new stuff.

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Got a brand new semi-automatic weapon with a laser sight. Oh, I'm praying that somebody tries to break in here tonight.

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I start with a comprehensive list of all the recent songs that have been big hits - and then I go down that list and see if I can come up with funny ideas for them. I can always come up with ideas, but not necessarily good ones!

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There are a lot of songs that would ostensibly be a good candidate for parody, yet I can't think of a clever enough idea.

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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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Right now I'm listening to a lot of Top 40 music, because THAT'S MY JOB.

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