I’m watching the charts every week and hoping something will pop into my head.
AL YANKOVICBuy our album, were Nirvana, a garage band from Seattle. Well, it sure beats raising cattle.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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As it turns out, there is a thing called the Internet, and stuff does go out there whether the suits like it or not.
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People say releasing an album is like giving birth, but it’s more like having a gallbladder operation.
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I try not to go the obvious route all the time, but sometimes the most obvious is actually the best.
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My personal taste doesn’t enter into it a lot when I make my decisions as to what to parody.
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I’ve learned how to use my spam filter pretty effectively.
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Right now I’m listening to a lot of Top 40 music, because THAT’S MY JOB.
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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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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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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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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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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’ve always known that if I recorded an album, it would come out, and people would enjoy it!
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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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Not only are they just great, nice guys; they’re some of the best musicians you’re likely to find.
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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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