You can play some schlock like New Kids On the Block.
AL YANKOVICI’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.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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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 don’t want to hear about this train being derailed! What happened to ‘The Flintstones’?’
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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’ve done a movie and a TV series, and someday I’d like to do a successful movie and a successful TV series. That would be nice.
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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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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 don’t think there are any new media I’d like to cover.
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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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After that, I made the decision to headline no matter what, even if I was playing to seven people. I wanted people to be there to see me.
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Right now I’m listening to a lot of Top 40 music, because THAT’S MY JOB.
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Nows the time to go for all the gusto you can grab. You’ll have plenty of time to be low-key when you’re laid out on the slab.
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I think I’m equally as abusive as the editors normally are for the “Letters and Tomatoes” column, which is the fan mail part of MAD Magazine and an ongoing feature.
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I was a huge fan of ‘Mad’ magazine when I was 11, 12, 13 years old. I’d scour used bookstores trying to find back issues, and I’d wait at the newsstand for a new issue to come out. My life revolved around it.
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Whereas if I wrote a movie script, chances are better than even that I’d just be another guy in L.A. with a movie script in his drawer.
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If I could find the right kind of property, get tied in with the right movie, I’d love to be involved, but I just find it hard to be motivated to do another screenplay right now.
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