As much as people are griping about the Internet taking sales away from artists, it’s been a huge promotional tool for me.
AL YANKOVICThey somehow didn’t see the need for an accordion player. That’s when I realized that I had to find my own path in life.
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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Buy our album, were Nirvana, a garage band from Seattle. Well, it sure beats raising cattle.
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By the time I’m in the studio recording my parody, 10,000 parodies of that song are on YouTube.
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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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I’ve always enjoyed animation and voiceover work. That’s something that I’ve been proactive about.
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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.
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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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In fact, when I come up with an idea for a parody I try to resist the urge to Google the idea to see if someone has done it already because the answer is almost always, “Yes, of course they have, they’ve thought of it!”
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I knew we were having problems when you put those piranhas in my bathtub again.
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The window doesn’t open, the fan is broke, and my face is turning blue. I haven’t been in a crowd like this since I went to see the Who.
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A lot of artists have really been supportive over the years.
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You slammed my face down on the barbecue grill, now my scars are all healing, but my heart never will.
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I’m still a geek on the inside, that’s the important thing.
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That’s something the kids should know about. Reading is a gateway to witchcraft and lesbianism.
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They do everything from gangsta rap to polka music and every genre in between. It’s amazing.
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