I’m watching the charts every week and hoping something will pop into my head.
AL YANKOVICI did have a child, and I was reading a lot of picture books to her, but at the same time writing a children’s book was something that I’d been wanting to do for many years, pretty much since the start of my career.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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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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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.
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I mean, I hate to gloat, but I’m extremely satisfied with my position in life and the way things have worked out for me.
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As my father used to tell me, the only true sign of success in life is being able to do for a living that which makes you happy.
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After that, I made the decision to headline no matter what, even if I was playing to seven people. I wanted people to be there to see me.
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So that was a joke that I continue up to this very day.
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I knew we were having problems when you put those piranhas in my bathtub again.
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There’s a lot of different ways that a song would be a challenge to parody.
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I make charts of songs that are good candidates, good targets, so to speak.
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So that’s why one of my rules of parody writing is that it’s gotta be funny regardless of whether you know the source material. It has to work on its own merit.
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I know I’m a million times as humble as thou art!
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People never ask people doing serious music, ‘Do you ever think about doing funny music?’
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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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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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You got me stranded on the bungee tower of love.
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