Until you came along I never dated anyone this low on the food chain.
AL YANKOVICThere are a lot of songs that would ostensibly be a good candidate for parody, yet I can’t think of a clever enough idea.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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You don’t need to be defined by your job.
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I have very mixed feelings about it. On one hand, I’m concerned that the rampant downloading of my copyright-protected material over the Internet is severely eating into my album sales and having a decidedly adverse effect on my career.
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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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I don’t watch a lot of other people’s parodies because I don’t want to be unduly influenced.
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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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One of my pet peeves is that sometimes the talents of my band get overlooked because, and it was the same problem that Frank Zappa had, with a lot of groups that use humor, people don’t realize there’s a lot of craft behind the comedy.
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I don’t really look at myself as the kind of person who craves attention, but I’ve never been to therapy so there’s probably a lot of stuff about myself that I don’t know.
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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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A lot of rap songs don’t usually have a lot of melody per se.
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If money can’t buy happiness, then I guess I’ll have to rent it.
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Take down those naked pictures of Ernest Borgnine.
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It fit pretty nicely into my schedule because we’d pretty much finished the bulk of promotion for Mandatory Fun and were just getting geared up for the World Tour so this was a nice time for me to be working on it.
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As a wise man once said, “April Fools Day is for amateurs. You NEVER need an excuse to mess with people’s heads.”
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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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Buy our album, were Nirvana, a garage band from Seattle. Well, it sure beats raising cattle.
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