There’s a lot of different ways that a song would be a challenge to parody.
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More Al Yankovic Quotes
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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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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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In a genre where most of the artists are one-hit wonders, I’ve been able to hang around longer than most “serious” acts. I pride myself in being a very talented leech.
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I mean, I hate to gloat, but I’m extremely satisfied with my position in life and the way things have worked out for me.
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I do original songs in the style of other artists, where I try to learn all their musical idiosyncrasies and try to do something that sounds like them and yet is a bit more sick and twisted.
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My hobbies just sort of gradually became my vocation.
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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 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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Somebody will come up to me after a show and have me sign their arm, and the next time I see them my autograph has been permanently inscribed on their arm.
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There’s enough people that do unfunny music. I’ll leave the serious stuff to Paris Hilton and Kevin Federline.
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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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In fact, when I come up with an idea for a parody I try to resist the urge to Google the idea to see if someone has done it already because the answer is almost always, “Yes, of course they have, they’ve thought of it!”
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He died a long painful death. However, you’ll be happy to hear that just a few years later he was reincarnated as Shirley MacLaine.
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You still have Top 40 radio now, but it’s 40 different stations. There aren’t many hits that everybody knows, and there aren’t many real superstars.
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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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