I make charts of songs that are good candidates, good targets, so to speak.
AL YANKOVICI’m still a geek on the inside, that’s the important thing.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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I’m free to do what I please, I’m probably not going to do albums. Just because I think releasing tracks as singles is a better way for me to stay topical.
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There’s enough people that do unfunny music. I’ll leave the serious stuff to Paris Hilton and Kevin Federline.
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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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My hobbies just sort of gradually became my vocation.
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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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I guess I lost a little bit of self-esteem that time that you made it with the whole hockey team.
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A lot of artists have really been supportive over the years.
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As a wise man once said, “April Fools Day is for amateurs. You NEVER need an excuse to mess with people’s heads.”
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Boys like Peter are afraid of alot of things, like nuclear annihilation and flunking algebra, but they’re not afraid of wolves.
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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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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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The music has always been my bread and butter, and I’ve focused more of my attention on that.
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It’s hard to really articulate what the parameters are that make one song parody-able and another song not, but if I can come up with a good enough idea for it, I go for it, and if not, then I have to move on.
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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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I’m a music fan, and I can listen to the radio, or music, without thinking, “How am I going to screw this up?” [Laughs] If I’m really actively trying to think of a parody, then I’ll have my antenna out, and be a little more proactive about it.
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