There’s a lot of different ways that a song would be a challenge to parody.
AL YANKOVICA lot of my cartoon voices are basically just variations on my natural voice.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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I’m free to do what I please, I’m probably not going to do albums. Just because I think releasing tracks as singles is a better way for me to stay topical.
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I don’t like to label myself. I know I’m very hard to pigeonhole.
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A lot of rap songs don’t usually have a lot of melody per se.
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I know I’m a million times as humble as thou art!
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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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I’ve always known that if I recorded an album, it would come out, and people would enjoy it!
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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.
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You can try on our suede underwear if you choose. Do what you want, but don’t step on my blue suede shoes.
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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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They somehow didn’t see the need for an accordion player. That’s when I realized that I had to find my own path in life.
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I’m an ugly girl, My face makes you hurl, Sad I have it, I should bag it. Acne everywhere, Unwanted facial hair. I’m a relation to Frankenstein’s creation.
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At this point I’ve got a bit of a track record. So people realize that when ‘Weird Al’ wants to go parody, it’s not meant to make them look bad… it’s meant to be a tribute.
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Didn’t have Nintendo, we just poured salt on snails.
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One of my pet peeves is that sometimes the talents of my band get overlooked because, and it was the same problem that Frank Zappa had, with a lot of groups that use humor, people don’t realize there’s a lot of craft behind the comedy.
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There are probably a few library fines I haven’t paid yet, but I’m a pretty clean-cut guy overall.
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