You can try on our suede underwear if you choose. Do what you want, but don’t step on my blue suede shoes.
AL YANKOVICI’ve always known that if I recorded an album, it would come out, and people would enjoy it!
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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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 did have a child, and I was reading a lot of picture books to her, but at the same time writing a children’s book was something that I’d been wanting to do for many years, pretty much since the start of my career.
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Take down those naked pictures of Ernest Borgnine.
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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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So I try not to pick songs that I know would drive me crazy.
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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 have a long-standing history of respecting artists’ wishes.
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I make charts of songs that are good candidates, good targets, so to speak.
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So then why get upset if somebody like me Tries to look at the world just a bit differently?
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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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At this point I’ve got a bit of a track record. So people realize that when ‘Weird Al’ wants to go parody, it’s not meant to make them look bad… it’s meant to be a tribute.
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That’s something the kids should know about. Reading is a gateway to witchcraft and lesbianism.
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I can bend paper clips into the shapes of small animals.
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I’m watching the charts every week and hoping something will pop into my head.
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Left all my Beatle records out in the sun, got a coke bottle stuck on the end of my tongue.
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