It becomes more important to me as time goes on to make every album the best thing I’ve ever done, so it’s a lot of self-imposed pressure that also kind of slows me down a bit.
AL YANKOVICThere are probably a few library fines I haven’t paid yet, but I’m a pretty clean-cut guy overall.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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You got me stranded on the bungee tower of love.
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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,
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Pop culture’s gotten much more disposable.
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Some people want to advertise their weirdness, and spread it out, that’s not me.
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If I could find the right kind of property, get tied in with the right movie, I’d love to be involved, but I just find it hard to be motivated to do another screenplay right now.
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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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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.
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Until you came along I never dated anyone this low on the food chain.
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I don’t watch anything on a regular basis – I tend to binge-watch things.
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I make charts of songs that are good candidates, good targets, so to speak.
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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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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.
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A lot of my cartoon voices are basically just variations on my natural voice.
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I’ve learned how to use my spam filter pretty effectively.
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As it turns out, there is a thing called the Internet, and stuff does go out there whether the suits like it or not.
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