I’m watching the charts every week and hoping something will pop into my head.
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Buy our album, were Nirvana, a garage band from Seattle. Well, it sure beats raising cattle.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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I’m watching the charts every week and hoping something will pop into my head.
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My wife went off with Elvis.
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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 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.
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There are a lot of songs that would ostensibly be a good candidate for parody, yet I can’t think of a clever enough idea.
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If you want to avoid heated arguments, never discuss religion, politics, or whether the toilet paper roll should go over or under.
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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.
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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.
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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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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.
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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.
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It’s hard to really articulate what the parameters are that make one song parody-able and another song not, but if I can come up with a good enough idea for it, I go for it, and if not, then I have to move on.
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Not only are they just great, nice guys; they’re some of the best musicians you’re likely to find.
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It’s hard to force creativity and humor.
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The music has always been my bread and butter, and I’ve focused more of my attention on that.
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