You make me wanna staple bagels to my face, then remove them with a pitchfork.
AL YANKOVICI’m watching the charts every week and hoping something will pop into my head.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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Whereas if I wrote a movie script, chances are better than even that I’d just be another guy in L.A. with a movie script in his drawer.
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I enjoy all kinds of music. But it is kind of strange when I do parodies, instead of setting up drums and guitar amps.
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You still have Top 40 radio now, but it’s 40 different stations. There aren’t many hits that everybody knows, and there aren’t many real superstars.
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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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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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Now with internet culture it seems like everyone is doing music parodies. And they’re not all good!
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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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I dated Siamese twins, I slept with Big Foot, too. Get me on Sally Jesse, put me on Donahue.
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Left all my Beatle records out in the sun, got a coke bottle stuck on the end of my tongue.
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People never ask people doing serious music, ‘Do you ever think about doing funny music?’
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Some songs are too repetitive for me to be able to fashion a humorous set of lyrics around. Some songs flat-out just don’t work creatively for me.
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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 fake something until you’re good at it.
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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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