So I try not to pick songs that I know would drive me crazy.
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More Al Yankovic Quotes
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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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Ever since the day you left me, I’ve been so miserable, my dear. I feel almost as bad as I did when you were still here.
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My own personal tastes don’t really have an effect on whether song is a parody target or not. But having said that,
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When I go to my live shows it’s often a multigenerational audience, a family bonding experience.
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I decided that I wanted to be a voice on every animated cartoon in the history of the world – even shows that haven’t been on the air for a very long time, that’s going to be harder to pull off.
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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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You got me stranded on the bungee tower of love.
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My hobbies just sort of gradually became my vocation.
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I have a long-standing history of respecting artists’ wishes.
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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 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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And then I’ll try and arrange them in a way that they would tell a semi-cohesive story.
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I’m known for being an up, high-energy, and optimistic kind of guy.
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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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By the time I’m in the studio recording my parody, 10,000 parodies of that song are on YouTube.
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