They do everything from gangsta rap to polka music and every genre in between. It’s amazing.
AL YANKOVICThe irony is of course that my career has lasted a whole lot longer than some of the people I’ve parodied over the years.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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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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It doesn’t take a military genius to see we’ll all be crispy critters after World War III.
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My brothers and sisters hated me because I was an only child.
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That’s something the kids should know about. Reading is a gateway to witchcraft and lesbianism.
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So that’s why one of my rules of parody writing is that it’s gotta be funny regardless of whether you know the source material. It has to work on its own merit.
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I make charts of songs that are good candidates, good targets, so to speak.
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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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Maybe I’ll make a huge color tapestry from my belly button lint.
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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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He put Ben Gay inside my jock strap and filled my tooth paste tube up with glue.
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Because you’re supposed to lose yourself in the character, but sometimes people look at a character and go “Oh, it’s ‘Weird Al.'”
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I did have a child, and I was reading a lot of picture books to her, but at the same time writing a children’s book was something that I’d been wanting to do for many years, pretty much since the start of my career.
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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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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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