I like the guitar-driven music of Nirvana at its peak. At that point, I thought there was a lot of really exciting music coming out.
AL YANKOVICTake down those naked pictures of Ernest Borgnine.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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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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On the other hand, I can get all the Metallica songs I want for FREE! WOW!
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I’d like to be able to be more topical and timely and more of-the-moment and I think the way to do that is, instead of waiting until I have twelve songs to release all at once, just to release them as I come up with them.
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Beans, beans, the magic legumes – the more you ingest, the more you consume.
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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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You got me stranded on the bungee tower of love.
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There aren’t that many superstars around anymore.
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I write and write and write, and then I edit it down to the parts that I think are amusing, or that help the storyline, or I’ll write a notebook full of ideas of anecdotes or story points.
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So then why get upset if somebody like me Tries to look at the world just a bit differently?
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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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The irony is of course that my career has lasted a whole lot longer than some of the people I’ve parodied over the years.
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My brothers and sisters hated me because I was an only child.
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Left all my Beatle records out in the sun, got a coke bottle stuck on the end of my tongue.
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They do everything from gangsta rap to polka music and every genre in between. It’s amazing.
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Whereas if I wrote a movie script, chances are better than even that I’d just be another guy in L.A. with a movie script in his drawer.
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I decided that I wanted to be a voice on every animated cartoon in the history of the world – even shows that haven’t been on the air for a very long time, that’s going to be harder to pull off.
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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.
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So that was a joke that I continue up to this very day.
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Didn’t have Nintendo, we just poured salt on snails.
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People that were a little nerdy in high school would look up to me and know it gets better.
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Well I’ve made no secret of my life long love of MAD Magazine, it’s probably my first and greatest influence in terms of my comic sensibilities. I’ve known John [Ficarra] for many years, and we’ve been friends.
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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.
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It fit pretty nicely into my schedule because we’d pretty much finished the bulk of promotion for Mandatory Fun and were just getting geared up for the World Tour so this was a nice time for me to be working on it.
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I’m a music fan, and I can listen to the radio, or music, without thinking, “How am I going to screw this up?” [Laughs] If I’m really actively trying to think of a parody, then I’ll have my antenna out, and be a little more proactive about it.
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By the time I’m in the studio recording my parody, 10,000 parodies of that song are on YouTube.
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Velvet Elvis never puts on weight.
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