At this point I’ve got a bit of a track record. So people realize that when ‘Weird Al’ wants to go parody, it’s not meant to make them look bad… it’s meant to be a tribute.
AL YANKOVICProbably 90 percent of my albums have polka medleys.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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Some songs are too repetitive for me to be able to fashion a humorous set of lyrics around. Some songs flat-out just don’t work creatively for me.
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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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That’s a big part of my life – doing things that I’m not prepared to do.
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The music has always been my bread and butter, and I’ve focused more of my attention on that.
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I’m just a no-good, scum sucking, nose picking, boot licking, sniveling, groveling, worthless hunk of slime.
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I don’t like to label myself. I know I’m very hard to pigeonhole.
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That’s something the kids should know about. Reading is a gateway to witchcraft and lesbianism.
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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’m watching the charts every week and hoping something will pop into my head.
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I’ll bet every great thinker and leader we’ve got Could see all kinds of things other people could not!
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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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Every night for dinner we had a big chunk of dirt.
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What kind of morons do you have working at newspapers in Austin that would base an entire review of an artist’s performance on whether or not they had a good seat?
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I’m still a geek on the inside, that’s the important thing.
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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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