I’m very analytical, I’m very precise. I mean, I don’t write for kids.
AL YANKOVICAs much as people are griping about the Internet taking sales away from artists, it’s been a huge promotional tool for me.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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Maybe I’ll make a huge color tapestry from my belly button lint.
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Beans, beans, the magic legumes – the more you ingest, the more you consume.
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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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I’m just a no-good, scum sucking, nose picking, boot licking, sniveling, groveling, worthless hunk of slime.
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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.
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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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You got me stranded on the bungee tower of love.
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My personal taste doesn’t enter into it a lot when I make my decisions as to what to parody.
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As a kid, I certainly never thought I would get to spend my life doing something fun.
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Boys like Peter are afraid of alot of things, like nuclear annihilation and flunking algebra, but they’re not afraid of wolves.
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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.
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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.
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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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I’ve always known that if I recorded an album, it would come out, and people would enjoy it!
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I am not making this up. Needless to say, as soon as I discovered that, I gave up meat entirely.
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