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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More Al Yankovic Quotes
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If you want to avoid heated arguments, never discuss religion, politics, or whether the toilet paper roll should go over or under.
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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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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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Every night for dinner we had a big chunk of dirt.
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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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When I started out, I didn’t feel like I was really accepted in the music or comedy communities, and I was somewhere on the edge, but now I feel like I’m accepted in both, which is extremely gratifying.
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I have very mixed feelings about it. On one hand, I’m concerned that the rampant downloading of my copyright-protected material over the Internet is severely eating into my album sales and having a decidedly adverse effect on my career.
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I 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.
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Midget wrestling on channel 3, it costs me 50 bucks a month.
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Velvet Elvis never puts on weight.
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I don’t watch anything on a regular basis – I tend to binge-watch things.
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You can play some schlock like New Kids On the Block.
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I make charts of songs that are good candidates, good targets, so to speak.
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If money can’t buy happiness, then I guess I’ll have to rent it.
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He put Ben Gay inside my jock strap and filled my tooth paste tube up with glue.
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