So that was a joke that I continue up to this very day.
AL YANKOVICI’m still a geek on the inside, that’s the important thing.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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I’m an ugly girl, My face makes you hurl, Sad I have it, I should bag it. Acne everywhere, Unwanted facial hair. I’m a relation to Frankenstein’s creation.
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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 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 bend paper clips into the shapes of small animals.
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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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My brothers and sisters hated me because I was an only child.
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A lot of artists have really been supportive over the years.
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I start with a comprehensive list of all the recent songs that have been big hits – and then I go down that list and see if I can come up with funny ideas for them. I can always come up with ideas, but not necessarily good ones!
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I try to pick songs that I actually like because I realize that I have to live with these songs for a long time, from when I’m working on them in the studio to possibly playing them onstage for the rest of my life.
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How can you get bored if the audience is cheering and laughing at something you’re doing?
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People never ask people doing serious music, ‘Do you ever think about doing funny music?’
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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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By the time I’m in the studio recording my parody, 10,000 parodies of that song are on YouTube.
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One of the hardest things I’ve had to deal with in my career is keeping my material topical even though I only release albums every three or four years.
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A lot of my cartoon voices are basically just variations on my natural voice.
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