How can you get bored if the audience is cheering and laughing at something you’re doing?
AL YANKOVICI don’t think there are any new media I’d like to cover.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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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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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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I tend to enunciate pretty well. It’s always seemed that my voice is one of those voices that people can recognize pretty easily – which has been a bit of a drawback for some characters.
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Like, I have had moments, which I think most people have, where you’ll be watching TV, and it’ll be interrupted by some tragic event, and you’ll actually find yourself thinking,
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And then I’ll try and arrange them in a way that they would tell a semi-cohesive story.
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When I was a kid, I thought I was going to be an architect, because when I was 12 years old I had a guidance counselor that convinced me that that was the best career choice for me.
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Velvet Elvis never puts on weight.
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I think that was the genesis of my polka medleys, because every rock song I played on the accordion just sounded like a polka and my friends thought it was funny.
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On the other hand, I can get all the Metallica songs I want for FREE! WOW!
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You still have Top 40 radio now, but it’s 40 different stations. There aren’t many hits that everybody knows, and there aren’t many real superstars.
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You slammed my face down on the barbecue grill, now my scars are all healing, but my heart never will.
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I can’t get too offended when somebody parodies me.
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They do everything from gangsta rap to polka music and every genre in between. It’s amazing.
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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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Because you’re supposed to lose yourself in the character, but sometimes people look at a character and go “Oh, it’s ‘Weird Al.'”
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