I am not making this up. Needless to say, as soon as I discovered that, I gave up meat entirely.
AL YANKOVICI start with a comprehensive list of all the recent songs that have been big hits – and then I go down that list and see if I can come up with funny ideas for them. I can always come up with ideas, but not necessarily good ones!
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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Nows the time to go for all the gusto you can grab. You’ll have plenty of time to be low-key when you’re laid out on the slab.
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There aren’t that many superstars around anymore.
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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 don’t want to hear about this train being derailed! What happened to ‘The Flintstones’?’
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I think my chances of ever making it into the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame are about as good as Milli Vanilli’s.
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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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Right now I’m listening to a lot of Top 40 music, because THAT’S MY JOB.
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Then I try to come up with ideas for parodies. And 99% of those ideas are horrible.
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I do a lot of different things, sometimes at the same time, and it’s very difficult to figure out where I fit.
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I’d rather clean all the bathrooms in Grand Central Station with my tongue than spend one more minute with you.
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My velvet Elvis means the world to me. Although he may not be worth much dough, he means more to me than some old Rembrandt or Van Gogh.
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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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If I could find the right kind of property, get tied in with the right movie, I’d love to be involved, but I just find it hard to be motivated to do another screenplay right now.
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I don’t like to label myself. I know I’m very hard to pigeonhole.
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I cut my teeth playing rock songs on the accordion when I was a teenager and my friends always thought that was extremely amusing.
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