You can try on our suede underwear if you choose. Do what you want, but don’t step on my blue suede shoes.
AL YANKOVICWhenever I do a parody it’s not meant to make you hate anybody’s music really.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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I tend to enunciate pretty well. It’s always seemed that my voice is one of those voices that people can recognize pretty easily – which has been a bit of a drawback for some characters.
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I’m just a no-good, scum sucking, nose picking, boot licking, sniveling, groveling, worthless hunk of slime.
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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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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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Beans, beans, the magic legumes – the more you ingest, the more you consume.
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I’m obviously not a rapper, and I don’t have any claims to be one, really.
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Somebody will come up to me after a show and have me sign their arm, and the next time I see them my autograph has been permanently inscribed on their arm.
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Maybe I’ll make a huge color tapestry from my belly button lint.
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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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I’m stranded all alone in the gas station of love, and I have to use the self service pump.
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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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I’m always a little leery about doing shows where I’m not the headliner because when I first started playing in 1982 I opened for Missing Persons and got pelted for 45 minutes.
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My process for the parodies is that I get an idea for a song and then get approval from the artist and then go in and record it and probably try to get it out as soon as possible.
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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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I try not to go the obvious route all the time, but sometimes the most obvious is actually the best.
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