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.
AL YANKOVICI don’t watch a lot of other people’s parodies because I don’t want to be unduly influenced.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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Right now I’m listening to a lot of Top 40 music, because THAT’S MY JOB.
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A lot of my cartoon voices are basically just variations on my natural voice.
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I can’t get too offended when somebody parodies me.
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That’s something the kids should know about. Reading is a gateway to witchcraft and lesbianism.
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Probably 90 percent of my albums have polka medleys.
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Like, I have had moments, which I think most people have, where you’ll be watching TV, and it’ll be interrupted by some tragic event, and you’ll actually find yourself thinking,
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Take down those naked pictures of Ernest Borgnine.
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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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Maybe I’ll make a huge color tapestry from my belly button lint.
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Then I try to come up with ideas for parodies. And 99% of those ideas are horrible.
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When I started out, I didn’t feel like I was really accepted in the music or comedy communities, and I was somewhere on the edge, but now I feel like I’m accepted in both, which is extremely gratifying.
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A lot of rap songs don’t usually have a lot of melody per se.
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Sometimes I get, “Have you ever thought about doing real music?” I like to think the music I do is real, it just happens to be funny.
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I like to think that I’ve gotten better at what I do. I spend more time and pay more attention to detail album after album. But pretty much it’s stayed the same.
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I was a huge fan of ‘Mad’ magazine when I was 11, 12, 13 years old. I’d scour used bookstores trying to find back issues, and I’d wait at the newsstand for a new issue to come out. My life revolved around it.
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