Latest Al Yankovic Quotes from Interviews

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

  Al Yankovic

  Optimistic, Guy, Energy

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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.'"

  Al Yankovic

  Character, Voice, People

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

  Al Yankovic

  Watches, Bases, Binge

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

  Al Yankovic

  Voice, Cartoon, Variation

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

  Al Yankovic

  Proactive, Animation, Enjoyed

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I decided that I wanted to be a voice on every animated cartoon in the history of the world - even shows that haven't been on the air for a very long time, that's going to be harder to pull off.

  Al Yankovic

  Air, Voice, Long

  Source: www.avclub.com

• 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.

  Al Yankovic

  Thinking, Editors, Mad

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

• Not any specific one, but I was a huge fan of Frank Jacobs, I guess he wrote the plurality of the song parodies for MAD, Sam Hart, a few others, but that was also where I was first exposed to the art form of song parodies.

  Al Yankovic

  Song, Art, Mad

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

• 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.

  Al Yankovic

  Emo, Couple, Thinking

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

• It's hard to say, I picked one of my favorite articles for the MAD vault. Which is one of the features of the Magazine so they don't have to actually pay artists or writers to come up with new stuff.

  Al Yankovic

  Artist, Mad, Magazines

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

• Well I've made no secret of my life long love of MAD Magazine, it's probably my first and greatest influence in terms of my comic sensibilities. I've known John [Ficarra] for many years, and we've been friends. About four or five months ago, at a dinner in New York, John made the very nice offer of my being guest editor for an issue of MAD and I thought about it for about half a nanosecond and decided that was a pretty good idea.

  Al Yankovic

  New York, Nice, Years

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

• 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.

  Al Yankovic

  Fun, Nice, Schedules

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

• 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.

  Al Yankovic

  Song, Thinking, Waiting

  Source: www.esquire.com

• I cut my teeth playing rock songs on the accordion when I was a teenager and my friends always thought that was extremely amusing. I think that was the genesis of my polka medleys, because every rock song I played on the accordion just sounded like a polka and my friends thought it was funny. So that was a joke that I continue up to this very day.

  Al Yankovic

  Song, Teenager, Cutting

  Source: www.esquire.com

• When I started out, I didn't feel like I was really accepted in the music or comedy communities, and I was somewhere on the edge, but now I feel like I'm accepted in both, which is extremely gratifying.

  Al Yankovic

  Community, Comedy, Accepted

  Source: www.esquire.com

• 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.

  Al Yankovic

  Teenager, Player, Rocks

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

  Al Yankovic

  Labels, Knows, Hard

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• I do a lot of different things, sometimes at the same time, and it's very difficult to figure out where I fit.

  Al Yankovic

  Different, Sometimes, Fit

  Source: www.esquire.com

• 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.

  Al Yankovic

  Song, Crazy, Long

  Source: www.esquire.com

• I can't say enough good things about my band. I feel very fortunate that I found them when I did, very early in my career. Not only are they just great, nice guys; they're some of the best musicians you're likely to find. They do everything from gangsta rap to polka music and every genre in between. It's amazing.

  Al Yankovic

  Nice, Rap, Gangsta

  Source: www.esquire.com

• I don't want to pooh-pooh modern pop. I appreciate that as well, but my personal favorite kind of music is guitar-based rock. I like grunge and garage bands and alternative music, but that's more my personal taste.

  Al Yankovic

  Rocks, Guitar, Appreciate

  Source: www.esquire.com

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

  Al Yankovic

  Guitar, Strange, Kind

  Source: www.esquire.com

• 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.

  Al Yankovic

  Song, Artist, Sick

  Source: www.esquire.com

• My process for the parodies is that I get an idea for a song and then get approval from the artist and then go in and record it and probably try to get it out as soon as possible.

  Al Yankovic

  Song, Artist, Ideas

  Source: www.esquire.com

• I like to think that I've gotten better at what I do. I spend more time and pay more attention to detail album after album. But pretty much it's stayed the same.

  Al Yankovic

  Thinking, Details, Albums

  Source: www.esquire.com