It was difficult to get into my friends’ rock bands when I was a teenager.
AL YANKOVICI’d rather clean all the bathrooms in Grand Central Station with my tongue than spend one more minute with you.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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I’ve learned how to use my spam filter pretty effectively.
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My 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.
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Some people want to advertise their weirdness, and spread it out, that’s not me.
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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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There are probably a few library fines I haven’t paid yet, but I’m a pretty clean-cut guy overall.
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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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I’ve done a movie and a TV series, and someday I’d like to do a successful movie and a successful TV series. That would be nice.
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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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Not any specific one, but I was a huge fan of Frank Jacobs, I guess he wrote the plurality of the song parodies for MAD, Sam Hart, a few others, but that was also where I was first exposed to the art form of song parodies.
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Doing things that I don’t know how to do, and keep doing them until I get good at them.
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I’m very analytical, I’m very precise.
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I’m known for being an up, high-energy, and optimistic kind of guy.
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I’ve always enjoyed animation and voiceover work. That’s something that I’ve been proactive about.
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So that’s why one of my rules of parody writing is that it’s gotta be funny regardless of whether you know the source material. It has to work on its own merit.
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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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