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.
AL YANKOVICIt was difficult to get into my friends’ rock bands when I was a teenager.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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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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Left all my Beatle records out in the sun, got a coke bottle stuck on the end of my tongue.
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So I try not to pick songs that I know would drive me crazy.
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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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I’ll be mellow when I’m dead.
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Not any specific one, but I was a huge fan of Frank Jacobs, I guess he wrote the plurality of the song parodies for MAD, Sam Hart, a few others, but that was also where I was first exposed to the art form of song parodies.
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People that were a little nerdy in high school would look up to me and know it gets better.
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The irony is of course that my career has lasted a whole lot longer than some of the people I’ve parodied over the years.
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I mean, I hate to gloat, but I’m extremely satisfied with my position in life and the way things have worked out for me.
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In the ’80s, I was the only game in town, I was the only one getting that kind of exposure in any rotation on MTV.
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I’m known for being an up, high-energy, and optimistic kind of guy.
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I know I’m a million times as humble as thou art!
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I don’t watch anything on a regular basis – I tend to binge-watch things.
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I make charts of songs that are good candidates, good targets, so to speak.
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I’m watching the charts every week and hoping something will pop into my head.
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