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.
AL YANKOVICYou can play some schlock like New Kids On the Block.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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I can’t get too offended when somebody parodies me.
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There’s a lot of different ways that a song would be a challenge to parody.
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I am not making this up. Needless to say, as soon as I discovered that, I gave up meat entirely.
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Didn’t have Nintendo, we just poured salt on snails.
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When I swore that you’re getting more and more beautiful everyday. Well, I was only kidding, honey.
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People never ask people doing serious music, ‘Do you ever think about doing funny music?’
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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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It becomes more important to me as time goes on to make every album the best thing I’ve ever done, so it’s a lot of self-imposed pressure that also kind of slows me down a bit.
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Then I try to come up with ideas for parodies. And 99% of those ideas are horrible.
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I suppose I had my rock star fantasies while I was singing into my hairbrush in the bathroom mirror, but I never really consciously said, ‘OK, this is what I’m going to do for a living and I’m going to be Weird Al.’
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I cut my teeth playing rock songs on the accordion when I was a teenager and my friends always thought that was extremely amusing.
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You got me stranded on the bungee tower of love.
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My brothers and sisters hated me because I was an only child.
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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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A lot of my cartoon voices are basically just variations on my natural voice.
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