I have a long-standing history of respecting artists’ wishes.
AL YANKOVICI’m obviously not a rapper, and I don’t have any claims to be one, really.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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Every night for dinner we had a big chunk of dirt.
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It becomes more important to me as time goes on to make every album the best thing I’ve ever done, so it’s a lot of self-imposed pressure that also kind of slows me down a bit.
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I like the guitar-driven music of Nirvana at its peak. At that point, I thought there was a lot of really exciting music coming out.
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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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I can’t get too offended when somebody parodies me.
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I decided that I wanted to be a voice on every animated cartoon in the history of the world – even shows that haven’t been on the air for a very long time, that’s going to be harder to pull off.
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A lot of rap songs don’t usually have a lot of melody per se.
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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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My hobbies just sort of gradually became my vocation.
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It’s hard to say, I picked one of my favorite articles for the MAD vault. Which is one of the features of the Magazine so they don’t have to actually pay artists or writers to come up with new stuff.
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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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So I try not to pick songs that I know would drive me crazy.
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I’m always a little leery about doing shows where I’m not the headliner because when I first started playing in 1982 I opened for Missing Persons and got pelted for 45 minutes.
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My process for the parodies is that I get an idea for a song and then get approval from the artist and then go in and record it and probably try to get it out as soon as possible.
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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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