My hobbies just sort of gradually became my vocation.
AL YANKOVICYou slammed my face down on the barbecue grill, now my scars are all healing, but my heart never will.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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One of the hardest things I’ve had to deal with in my career is keeping my material topical even though I only release albums every three or four years.
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If money can’t buy happiness, then I guess I’ll have to rent it.
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My personal taste doesn’t enter into it a lot when I make my decisions as to what to parody.
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I do original songs in the style of other artists, where I try to learn all their musical idiosyncrasies and try to do something that sounds like them and yet is a bit more sick and twisted.
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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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When I go to my live shows it’s often a multigenerational audience, a family bonding experience.
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So I try not to pick songs that I know would drive me crazy.
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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’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’s hard to say, I picked one of my favorite articles for the MAD vault. Which is one of the features of the Magazine so they don’t have to actually pay artists or writers to come up with new stuff.
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And then I’ll try and arrange them in a way that they would tell a semi-cohesive story.
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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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Probably 90 percent of my albums have polka medleys.
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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.
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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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