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My personal taste doesn’t enter into it a lot when I make my decisions as to what to parody.

Al Yankovic

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

Able Instead Moment More Release Song Think Timely Topical War
I’m known for being an up, high-energy, and optimistic kind of guy.
AL YANKOVIC

Energy Guy High Kind Known Optimistic
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.
AL YANKOVIC

Career Concern Copyright Download Feel Hand MIxed One Rampant Song
You slammed my face down on the barbecue grill, now my scars are all healing, but my heart never will.
AL YANKOVIC

Barbecue Down Face Heal Heart Scar Slam
My velvet Elvis means the world to me. Although he may not be worth much dough, he means more to me than some old Rembrandt or Van Gogh.
AL YANKOVIC

Although Dough Mean Some Velvet World Worth
If something is good enough, it can be out there and people will see it.
AL YANKOVIC

Enough Good People See Something
You still have Top 40 radio now, but it’s 40 different stations. There aren’t many hits that everybody knows, and there aren’t many real superstars.
AL YANKOVIC

Everybody Forty Know Radio Show Still Superstar
I can bend paper clips into the shapes of small animals.
AL YANKOVIC

Animal Bend Paper Shape Work
Left all my Beatle records out in the sun, got a coke bottle stuck on the end of my tongue.
AL YANKOVIC

Bottle Coke End Got Left Nestle Record Stuck Sun Tongue
I don’t think there are any new media I’d like to cover.
AL YANKOVIC

Any Cover Media New Think
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

Ablum Album Attention Better Detail Gotten More Pay Spend Think Time
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

Abusive Column Editor Equally Letter Mad Normal Ongoing Think Tomato
Then I try to come up with ideas for parodies. And 99% of those ideas are horrible.
AL YANKOVIC

Come Horrible Idea Parody
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.
AL YANKOVIC

Always Character Drawback Easily Enunciate People Pretty Recognize Seem Tenth Voice
So then why get upset if somebody like me Tries to look at the world just a bit differently?
AL YANKOVIC

Differently Kind Somebody Thing Tries Upset
On the other hand, I can get all the Metallica songs I want for FREE! WOW!
AL YANKOVIC

Free Hand On Other Song Want Wow

My personal taste doesn’t enter into it a lot when I make my decisions as to what to parody.

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