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 YANKOVICI knew we were having problems when you put those piranhas in my bathtub again.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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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’m stranded all alone in the gas station of love, and I have to use the self service pump.
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Because you’re supposed to lose yourself in the character, but sometimes people look at a character and go “Oh, it’s ‘Weird Al.'”
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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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I’m a music fan, and I can listen to the radio, or music, without thinking, “How am I going to screw this up?” [Laughs] If I’m really actively trying to think of a parody, then I’ll have my antenna out, and be a little more proactive about 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 know I’m a million times as humble as thou art!
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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 think that nerds, if you want to call them that, have only gotten more hip and assimilated into the culture.
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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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There are probably a few library fines I haven’t paid yet, but I’m a pretty clean-cut guy overall.
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On the other hand, I can get all the Metallica songs I want for FREE! WOW!
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In the ’80s, I was putting out an album virtually every year, I think mostly based on fear – that if I didn’t, people would soon forget about me.
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I start with a comprehensive list of all the recent songs that have been big hits – and then I go down that list and see if I can come up with funny ideas for them. I can always come up with ideas, but not necessarily good ones!
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I think that was the genesis of my polka medleys, because every rock song I played on the accordion just sounded like a polka and my friends thought it was funny.
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