Al Yankovic Quotes, Jobs Quotes, Listening Quotes

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

6 years ago

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I think I'm equally as abusive as the editors normally are for the "Letters and Tomatoes" column, which is the fan mail part of MAD Magazine and an ongoing feature.

6 years ago

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I 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. It's very much a "Weird Al" themed issue, so I'd like to think that there's a lot of "Weird Al" flavor throughout but I think it'd be generous really to call me an editor.

6 years ago

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I've always enjoyed animation and voiceover work. That's something that I've been proactive about.

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Nows the time to go for all the gusto you can grab. You'll have plenty of time to be low-key when you're laid out on the slab.

6 years ago

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Every night for dinner we had a big chunk of dirt.

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I'd like to be able to be more topical and timely and more of-the-moment and I think the way to do that is, instead of waiting until I have twelve songs to release all at once, just to release them as I come up with them.

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A lot of rap songs don't usually have a lot of melody per se.

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

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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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My brothers and sisters hated me because I was an only child.

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

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

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

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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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Ever since the day you left me, I've been so miserable, my dear. I feel almost as bad as I did when you were still here.

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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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Buy our album, were Nirvana, a garage band from Seattle. Well, it sure beats raising cattle.

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