My wife went off with Elvis.
AL YANKOVICI’m free to do what I please, I’m probably not going to do albums. Just because I think releasing tracks as singles is a better way for me to stay topical.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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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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Now with internet culture it seems like everyone is doing music parodies. And they’re not all good!
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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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I think I’m equally as abusive as the editors normally are for the “Letters and Tomatoes” column, which is the fan mail part of MAD Magazine and an ongoing feature.
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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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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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I don’t want to hear about this train being derailed! What happened to ‘The Flintstones’?’
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I cut my teeth playing rock songs on the accordion when I was a teenager and my friends always thought that was extremely amusing.
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I was a huge fan of ‘Mad’ magazine when I was 11, 12, 13 years old. I’d scour used bookstores trying to find back issues, and I’d wait at the newsstand for a new issue to come out. My life revolved around it.
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You don’t need to be defined by your job.
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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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I’ve always known that if I recorded an album, it would come out, and people would enjoy it!
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I think that was the genesis of my polka medleys, because every rock song I played on the accordion just sounded like a polka and my friends thought it was funny.
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I suppose I had my rock star fantasies while I was singing into my hairbrush in the bathroom mirror, but I never really consciously said, ‘OK, this is what I’m going to do for a living and I’m going to be Weird Al.’
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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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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 love the way they run in fright when I turn on the kitchen light. And when I squish them on the ground, they make a pleasant crunchy sound.
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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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You make me wanna staple bagels to my face, then remove them with a pitchfork.
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Maybe I’ll make a huge color tapestry from my belly button lint.
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Midget wrestling on channel 3, it costs me 50 bucks a month.
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You can play some schlock like New Kids On the Block.
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I know I’m a million times as humble as thou art!
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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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I think my chances of ever making it into the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame are about as good as Milli Vanilli’s.
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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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