Al Yankovic Quotes

There aren't that many superstars around anymore.

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When I go to my live shows it's often a multigenerational audience, a family bonding experience.

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

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One of my pet peeves is that sometimes the talents of my band get overlooked because, and it was the same problem that Frank Zappa had, with a lot of groups that use humor, people don't realize there's a lot of craft behind the comedy.

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Take down those naked pictures of Ernest Borgnine.

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No Joni Mitchell 8 track tapes in my car.

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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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Pop culture's gotten much more disposable.

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I'm known for being an up, high-energy, and optimistic kind of guy.

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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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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.

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You make me wanna staple bagels to my face, then remove them with a pitchfork.

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I'm very analytical, I'm very precise.

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You slammed my face down on the barbecue grill, now my scars are all healing, but my heart never will.

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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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I have a long-standing history of respecting artists' wishes.

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I don't watch a lot of other people's parodies because I don't want to be unduly influenced.

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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.

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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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