I have a long-standing history of respecting artists’ wishes.
AL YANKOVICIt’s hard to force creativity and humor.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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I don’t want to hear about this train being derailed! What happened to ‘The Flintstones’?’
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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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My personal taste doesn’t enter into it a lot when I make my decisions as to what to parody.
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There’s a lot of different ways that a song would be a challenge to parody.
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It fit pretty nicely into my schedule because we’d pretty much finished the bulk of promotion for Mandatory Fun and were just getting geared up for the World Tour so this was a nice time for me to be working on it.
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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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There are a lot of songs that would ostensibly be a good candidate for parody, yet I can’t think of a clever enough idea.
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Until you came along I never dated anyone this low on the food chain.
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Take down those naked pictures of Ernest Borgnine.
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Velvet Elvis never puts on weight.
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I don’t like to label myself. I know I’m very hard to pigeonhole.
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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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Nows the time to go for all the gusto you can grab. You’ll have plenty of time to be low-key when you’re laid out on the slab.
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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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That’s a big part of my life – doing things that I’m not prepared to do.
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