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.
AL YANKOVICMy process for the parodies is that I get an idea for a song and then get approval from the artist and then go in and record it and probably try to get it out as soon as possible.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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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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I don’t really look at myself as the kind of person who craves attention, but I’ve never been to therapy so there’s probably a lot of stuff about myself that I don’t know.
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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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When I swore that you’re getting more and more beautiful everyday. Well, I was only kidding, honey.
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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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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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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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One of my pet peeves is that sometimes the talents of my band get overlooked because, and it was the same problem that Frank Zappa had, with a lot of groups that use humor, people don’t realize there’s a lot of craft behind the comedy.
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Buy our album, were Nirvana, a garage band from Seattle. Well, it sure beats raising cattle.
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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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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 very analytical, I’m very precise. I mean, I don’t write for kids.
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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 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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You can play some schlock like New Kids On the Block.
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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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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 don’t think there are any new media I’d like to cover.
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I guess I lost a little bit of self-esteem that time that you made it with the whole hockey team.
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No Joni Mitchell 8 track tapes in my car.
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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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Until you came along I never dated anyone this low on the food chain.
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If something is good enough, it can be out there and people will see it.
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Ever since the day you left me, I’ve been so miserable, my dear. I feel almost as bad as I did when you were still here.
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I think that nerds, if you want to call them that, have only gotten more hip and assimilated into the culture.
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I enjoy all kinds of music. But it is kind of strange when I do parodies, instead of setting up drums and guitar amps.
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