Al Yankovic Quotes, Teenager Quotes, Player Quotes

It was difficult to get into my friends' rock bands when I was a teenager. They somehow didn't see the need for an accordion player. That's when I realized that I had to find my own path in life.

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I did have a child, and I was reading a lot of picture books to her, but at the same time writing a children's book was something that I'd been wanting to do for many years, pretty much since the start of my career.

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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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Like, I have had moments, which I think most people have, where you'll be watching TV, and it'll be interrupted by some tragic event, and you'll actually find yourself thinking, 'I don't want to hear about this train being derailed! What happened to 'The Flintstones'?'

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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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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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That's a big part of my life - doing things that I'm not prepared to do. Doing things that I don't know how to do, and keep doing them until I get good at them. I always try to put myself out of my comfort zone and out of my depth, and hopefully somewhere along the line I'll catch up.

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People that were a little nerdy in high school would look up to me and know it gets better.

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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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My hobbies just sort of gradually became my vocation.

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

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There are probably a few library fines I haven't paid yet, but I'm a pretty clean-cut guy overall.

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

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

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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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By the time I'm in the studio recording my parody, 10,000 parodies of that song are on YouTube.

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

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I'm a music fan, and I can listen to the radio, or music, without thinking, "How am I going to screw this up?" [Laughs] If I'm really actively trying to think of a parody, then I'll have my antenna out, and be a little more proactive about it.

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As a wise man once said, “April Fools Day is for amateurs. You NEVER need an excuse to mess with people's heads.”

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You fake something until you're good at it.

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