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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More Al Yankovic Quotes
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Now with internet culture it seems like everyone is doing music parodies. And they’re not all good!
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I’m stranded all alone in the gas station of love, and I have to use the self service pump.
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I don’t watch anything on a regular basis – I tend to binge-watch things.
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I’m still a geek on the inside, that’s the important thing.
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You can try on our suede underwear if you choose. Do what you want, but don’t step on my blue suede shoes.
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It’s hard to say, I picked one of my favorite articles for the MAD vault. Which is one of the features of the Magazine so they don’t have to actually pay artists or writers to come up with new stuff.
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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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I can bend paper clips into the shapes of small animals.
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At this point I’ve got a bit of a track record. So people realize that when ‘Weird Al’ wants to go parody, it’s not meant to make them look bad… it’s meant to be a tribute.
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One of the hardest things I’ve had to deal with in my career is keeping my material topical even though I only release albums every three or four years.
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Beans, beans, the magic legumes – the more you ingest, the more you consume.
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As a kid, I certainly never thought I would get to spend my life doing something fun.
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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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Buy our album, were Nirvana, a garage band from Seattle. Well, it sure beats raising cattle.
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I don’t want to pooh-pooh modern pop. I appreciate that as well, but my personal favorite kind of music is guitar-based rock. I like grunge and garage bands and alternative music, but that’s more my personal taste.
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I don’t watch a lot of other people’s parodies because I don’t want to be unduly influenced.
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I’m always a little leery about doing shows where I’m not the headliner because when I first started playing in 1982 I opened for Missing Persons and got pelted for 45 minutes.
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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’m known for being an up, high-energy, and optimistic kind of guy.
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What kind of morons do you have working at newspapers in Austin that would base an entire review of an artist’s performance on whether or not they had a good seat?
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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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My wife went off with Elvis.
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So that was a joke that I continue up to this very day.
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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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It doesn’t take a military genius to see we’ll all be crispy critters after World War III.
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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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