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Weird AL quotes

Journal Entry: Thu Apr 17, 2008, 1:45 PM
I've got nothing to say and I wanna remember this stuff, so ill share if anyone ever cares.

These are all taken from the Q&A section of weirdal.com (Go there. Weird Al is amazingly awesome):


Fan: "What is the first thing you notice about a person?"

Weird Al: "Whether or not they’re on fire."
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Fan: Hey Al!!!!! What do u think about Napster? I just want to know if you approve.

Wierd Al: 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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Wierd Al: Yes, let me now say for the record, I did not write “Genius In France” as any sort of political statement. I wrote the song long before the war in Iraq started, and it was never my intention to jump on any kind of “bashing the French” bandwagon. I was bashing the French before it was trendy.
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Fan: Have you ever had frog legs?

Weird Al: No, they’ve always been human.
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Fan: Will you ever release The Weird Al Show on DVD and make me the happiest woman on earth??

Weird Al: I don’t have time to do both. Figure out which one you want and get back to me.
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Fan: Hey Al, I was wondering why you say you don’t like to talk about political issues but in some interviews you talk about them anyway. Why?

Weird Al: Well, it’s true – I really don’t like talking about political issues in interviews. But when an interviewer asks me a direct question, I feel somewhat obligated to either give them a direct answer, or make a joke, or perhaps a little combination of both. Unfortunately, it’s normally considered pretty rude just to jump out of my chair and run screaming out of the room with my hands over my ears.
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Not Fan?: What kind of morons do you have working for you? They gave the reviewer for the Austin TX paper the WORST possible seats (SRO) so now you have a bad review.....

Weird Al: Gee, I’m terribly sorry about that. Some reviewer actually had to STAND UP during a sold-out rock concert? That’s inexcusable. But I have to ask…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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Fan: Can u send me your music for free?

Weird Al: Yes, I certainly can. And yet, I shan’t.
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Fan: What character do you do the voice of in "The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy"?

Weird Al: I did three episodes of “The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy,” each time playing a character called the Squid Hat. These episodes were all Harry Potter parodies, and my character was a take-off on the sorting hat at the Hogwarts School. Unfortunately, John Vernon (the wonderful actor who played Toadblatt in those episodes, as well as Dean Wormer in “Animal House”;) passed away recently, so I have to assume they won’t be continuing that storyline.

(This one's purely for me to remember that Billy and Mandy is even more awesome than I ever thought it was, and I already really loved it :3)
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Fan (Prior to the release of Lost in Vinewood): I thought I had heard a rumor about the upcoming album being your last one. Is there any truth to this?

Weird Al: Absolutely not. “;Poodle Hat” was my last album. My upcoming album is my next one. I don’t know how these silly rumors get started.
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Unintelligent Fan: Hey Al! Love your work, but aren't you slipping a bit? "Don't Download This Song?" I mean, the whole downloading music from the Internet controversy is like 5 years old, man!

Weird Al: Yeah, you're absolutely right. It's a completely dead issue - people stopped illegally downloading songs off the Internet years ago, and the RIAA is no longer taking legal action against P2P sites or criminalizing people who share files. What was I thinking? Thanks for setting me straight. By the way, don't forget to e-mail Neil Young and ask him why he's still writing songs about Iraq on his new album. I mean, come on... that war is so 2003!
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Fan:

Did you have many friends when you were young or were you always considered "weird"?

Weird Al: I had a very small group of very weird friends.
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Fan: What is the story behind the "Spasm Jam" at the end of the OTDE CD? (Off the Deep End)

Weird Al: I wanted to emulate Nirvana, who also had a song following ten minutes of silence at the end of their "Nevermind" album. But I also thought it would be a great practical joke to make the "song" a six-second burst of the most anxiety-provoking sounds imaginable, thereby scaring people out of their minds. We actually spent a lot of time recording and mixing that - adding feedback, fingernails on chalkboards, etc. We wanted to create the most annoying six seconds of audio ever recorded.


(that really really did scare the living shit out of me and my friends as we drove back for two hours from Weird Al in concert)
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Fan: Who would you say is your biggest competitor?

Weird Al: Fabio.
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Fan: When was the first time you realized you were a "star"?

Weird Al: I guess it was when Paul McCartney noticed me at a party and said, "Hey! It's Weird Al!!"
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Fan: Is there any gag or line you had to cut out of UHF that you really wish you'd been able to keep in?

Weird Al : There was a station promo for a new sitcom called "Those Darn Homos!" which Orion made me take out. It was pretty funny, but I guess not terribly P.C.
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Fan: If you found out that you only had a week to live, what would you do for that week?

Weird Al: Weep uncontrollably.
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Fan: What sort of music do you like to listen to when you want to be relaxed and/or entertained? (Wrenne Hazard)

Weird Al: Aerosmith, B-52s, Beatles, Devo, Peter Gabriel, Kinks, Oingo Boingo, R.E.M., Rolling Stones, Talking Heads, They Might Be Giants, Too Much Joy, The Who, Frank Zappa, and of course All Things Demented.





Well that's it :bucktooth:. well, what i bothered to copypasta. And if you didnt have that kind of patience or caring, tough noogies, it was for me anyway >:B

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*nerkel:iconnerkel: Apr 17, 2008, 3:10:23 PM
Dear god, I love Wierd Al XD
~Dookie-boy:iconDookie-boy: Apr 22, 2008, 6:56:05 PM
yes, thank you, Z for posting those.

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