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.
AL YANKOVICSometimes I get, “Have you ever thought about doing real music?” I like to think the music I do is real, it just happens to be funny.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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My personal taste doesn’t enter into it a lot when I make my decisions as to what to parody.
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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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I always try to put myself out of my comfort zone and out of my depth, and hopefully somewhere along the line I’ll catch up.
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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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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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You slammed my face down on the barbecue grill, now my scars are all healing, but my heart never will.
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Sometimes I get, “Have you ever thought about doing real music?” I like to think the music I do is real, it just happens to be funny.
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I can’t get too offended when somebody parodies me.
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I am not making this up. Needless to say, as soon as I discovered that, I gave up meat entirely.
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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 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!
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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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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 guess I lost a little bit of self-esteem that time that you made it with the whole hockey team.
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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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