Al Yankovic Quotes, Guitar Quotes, Strange Quotes

I enjoy all kinds of music. But it is kind of strange when I do parodies, instead of setting up drums and guitar amps.

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

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

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

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At this point I've got a bit of a track record. So people realize that when 'Weird Al' wants to go parody, it's not meant to make them look bad... it's meant to be a tribute.

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I don't really look at myself as the kind of person who craves attention, but I've never been to therapy so there's probably a lot of stuff about myself that I don't know.

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The irony is of course that my career has lasted a whole lot longer than some of the people I've parodied over the years.

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There aren't that many superstars around anymore.

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People say releasing an album is like giving birth, but it’s more like having a gallbladder operation.

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I can't get too offended when somebody parodies me.

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I don't watch anything on a regular basis - I tend to binge-watch things.

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So that's why one of my rules of parody writing is that it's gotta be funny regardless of whether you know the source material. It has to work on its own merit.

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It fit pretty nicely into my schedule because we'd pretty much finished the bulk of promotion for Mandatory Fun and were just getting geared up for the World Tour so this was a nice time for me to be working on it.

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

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I'm stranded all alone in the gas station of love, and I have to use the self service pump.

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I'll be mellow when I'm dead.

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I try not to go the obvious route all the time, but sometimes the most obvious is actually the best.

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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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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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I make charts of songs that are good candidates, good targets, so to speak. Then I try to come up with ideas for parodies. And 99% of those ideas are horrible.

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