By the time I’m in the studio recording my parody, 10,000 parodies of that song are on YouTube.
AL YANKOVICI do a lot of different things, sometimes at the same time, and it’s very difficult to figure out where I fit.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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It’s hard to force creativity and humor.
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What kind of morons do you have working at newspapers in Austin that would base an entire review of an artist’s performance on whether or not they had a good seat?
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I can’t say enough good things about my band. I feel very fortunate that I found them when I did, very early in my career.
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It was difficult to get into my friends’ rock bands when I was a teenager.
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Now with internet culture it seems like everyone is doing music parodies. And they’re not all good!
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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 don’t watch anything on a regular basis – I tend to binge-watch things.
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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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On the other hand, I can get all the Metallica songs I want for FREE! WOW!
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I’m very analytical, I’m very precise. I mean, I don’t write for kids.
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Whenever I do a parody it’s not meant to make you hate anybody’s music really.
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A lot of artists have really been supportive over the years.
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I do a lot of different things, sometimes at the same time, and it’s very difficult to figure out where I fit.
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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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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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