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.
AL YANKOVICSo I try not to pick songs that I know would drive me crazy.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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As it turns out, there is a thing called the Internet, and stuff does go out there whether the suits like it or not.
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I’m watching the charts every week and hoping something will pop into my head.
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I’d like to be able to be more topical and timely and more of-the-moment and I think the way to do that is, instead of waiting until I have twelve songs to release all at once, just to release them as I come up with them.
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I’d rather clean all the bathrooms in Grand Central Station with my tongue than spend one more minute with you.
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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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My velvet Elvis means the world to me. Although he may not be worth much dough, he means more to me than some old Rembrandt or Van Gogh.
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About four or five months ago, at a dinner in New York, John made the very nice offer of my being guest editor for an issue of MAD and I thought about it for about half a nanosecond and decided that was a pretty good idea.
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On the other hand, I can get all the Metallica songs I want for FREE! WOW!
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I’m always a little leery about doing shows where I’m not the headliner because when I first started playing in 1982 I opened for Missing Persons and got pelted for 45 minutes.
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Buy our album, were Nirvana, a garage band from Seattle. Well, it sure beats raising cattle.
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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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I think my chances of ever making it into the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame are about as good as Milli Vanilli’s.
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Some people want to advertise their weirdness, and spread it out, that’s not me.
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Whenever I do a parody it’s not meant to make you hate anybody’s music really.
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Midget wrestling on channel 3, it costs me 50 bucks a month.
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