Al Yankovic Quotes, Stars Quotes, Mirrors Quotes

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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In the '80s, I was the only game in town, I was the only one getting that kind of exposure in any rotation on MTV. Now with internet culture it seems like everyone is doing music parodies. And they're not all good!

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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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You fake something until you're good at it.

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Probably 90 percent of my albums have polka medleys.

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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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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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I have very mixed feelings about it. On one hand, I’m concerned that the rampant downloading of my copyright-protected material over the Internet is severely eating into my album sales and having a decidedly adverse effect on my career. On the other hand, I can get all the Metallica songs I want for FREE! WOW!

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A lot of artists have really been supportive over the years.

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Until you came along I never dated anyone this low on the food chain.

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

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I'm always a little leery about doing shows where I'm not the headliner because when I first started playing in 1982 I opened for Missing Persons and got pelted for 45 minutes. After that, I made the decision to headline no matter what, even if I was playing to seven people. I wanted people to be there to see me.

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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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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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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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How can you get bored if the audience is cheering and laughing at something you're doing?

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If I could find the right kind of property, get tied in with the right movie, I'd love to be involved, but I just find it hard to be motivated to do another screenplay right now.

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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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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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