As much as people are griping about the Internet taking sales away from artists, it’s been a huge promotional tool for me.
AL YANKOVICProbably 90 percent of my albums have polka medleys.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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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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Right now I’m listening to a lot of Top 40 music, because THAT’S MY JOB.
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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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I don’t like to label myself. I know I’m very hard to pigeonhole.
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Take down those naked pictures of Ernest Borgnine.
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After that, I made the decision to headline no matter what, even if I was playing to seven people. I wanted people to be there to see me.
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I make charts of songs that are good candidates, good targets, so to speak.
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Got a brand new semi-automatic weapon with a laser sight. Oh, I’m praying that somebody tries to break in here tonight.
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Pop culture’s gotten much more disposable.
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I know I’m a million times as humble as thou art!
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I always try to put myself out of my comfort zone and out of my depth, and hopefully somewhere along the line I’ll catch up.
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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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My personal taste doesn’t enter into it a lot when I make my decisions as to what to parody.
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My wife went off with Elvis.
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Probably 90 percent of my albums have polka medleys.
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