People never ask people doing serious music, ‘Do you ever think about doing funny music?’
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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.
Al YankovicAl Yankovic The music has always been my bread and butter, and I’ve focused more of my attention on that.
Al YankovicAl Yankovic By the time I’m in the studio recording my parody, 10,000 parodies of that song are on YouTube.
Al YankovicAl Yankovic I don’t really look at myself as the kind of person who craves attention, but I’ve never been to therapy so there’s probably a lot of stuff about myself that I don’t know.
Al YankovicAl Yankovic Ever since the day you left me, I’ve been so miserable, my dear. I feel almost as bad as I did when you were still here.
Al YankovicAl Yankovic 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.
Al YankovicAl Yankovic Pop culture’s gotten much more disposable.
Al YankovicAl Yankovic How can you get bored if the audience is cheering and laughing at something you’re doing?
Al YankovicAl Yankovic I’m just a no-good, scum sucking, nose picking, boot licking, sniveling, groveling, worthless hunk of slime.
Al YankovicAl Yankovic I know I’m a million times as humble as thou art!
Al YankovicAl Yankovic 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.
Al YankovicAl Yankovic People that were a little nerdy in high school would look up to me and know it gets better.
Al YankovicAl Yankovic About four or five months ago, at a dinner in New York, John made the very nice offer of my being guest editor for an issue of MAD and I thought about it for about half a nanosecond and decided that was a pretty good idea.
Al YankovicAl Yankovic Now with internet culture it seems like everyone is doing music parodies. And they’re not all good!
Al YankovicAl Yankovic My brothers and sisters hated me because I was an only child.
Al YankovicAl Yankovic Not only are they just great, nice guys; they’re some of the best musicians you’re likely to find.
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