I don’t think there are any new media I’d like to cover.
AL YANKOVICI’ll bet every great thinker and leader we’ve got Could see all kinds of things other people could not!
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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Some songs are too repetitive for me to be able to fashion a humorous set of lyrics around. Some songs flat-out just don’t work creatively for me.
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I’ve always enjoyed animation and voiceover work. That’s something that I’ve been proactive about.
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As a wise man once said, “April Fools Day is for amateurs. You NEVER need an excuse to mess with people’s heads.”
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I guess I lost a little bit of self-esteem that time that you made it with the whole hockey team.
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It fit pretty nicely into my schedule because we’d pretty much finished the bulk of promotion for Mandatory Fun and were just getting geared up for the World Tour so this was a nice time for me to be working on it.
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Take down those naked pictures of Ernest Borgnine.
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I have a long-standing history of respecting artists’ wishes.
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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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As much as people are griping about the Internet taking sales away from artists, it’s been a huge promotional tool for me.
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That’s a big part of my life – doing things that I’m not prepared to do.
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I’m very analytical, I’m very precise. I mean, I don’t write for kids.
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On the other hand, I can get all the Metallica songs I want for FREE! WOW!
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Got a brand new semi-automatic weapon with a laser sight. Oh, I’m praying that somebody tries to break in here tonight.
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It’s hard to force creativity and humor.
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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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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 learned how to use my spam filter pretty effectively.
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You make me wanna staple bagels to my face, then remove them with a pitchfork.
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There’s enough people that do unfunny music. I’ll leave the serious stuff to Paris Hilton and Kevin Federline.
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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.
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Some people want to advertise their weirdness, and spread it out, that’s not me.
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Left all my Beatle records out in the sun, got a coke bottle stuck on the end of my tongue.
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One of the hardest things I’ve had to deal with in my career is keeping my material topical even though I only release albums every three or four years.
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They do everything from gangsta rap to polka music and every genre in between. It’s amazing.
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I suppose I had my rock star fantasies while I was singing into my hairbrush in the bathroom mirror, but I never really consciously said, ‘OK, this is what I’m going to do for a living and I’m going to be Weird Al.’
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I love the way they run in fright when I turn on the kitchen light. And when I squish them on the ground, they make a pleasant crunchy sound.
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