You fake something until you’re good at it.
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 think there are any new media I’d like to cover.
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Somebody will come up to me after a show and have me sign their arm, and the next time I see them my autograph has been permanently inscribed on their arm.
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I write and write and write, and then I edit it down to the parts that I think are amusing, or that help the storyline, or I’ll write a notebook full of ideas of anecdotes or story points.
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My hobbies just sort of gradually became my vocation.
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In a genre where most of the artists are one-hit wonders, I’ve been able to hang around longer than most “serious” acts. I pride myself in being a very talented leech.
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Every night for dinner we had a big chunk of dirt.
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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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It’s hard to really articulate what the parameters are that make one song parody-able and another song not, but if I can come up with a good enough idea for it, I go for it, and if not, then I have to move on.
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No Joni Mitchell 8 track tapes in my car.
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A lot of my cartoon voices are basically just variations on my natural voice.
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I was able to come up with a couple articles for the magazine, I was able to solicit help from a bunch of my friends to contribute pieces: Patton Oswalt, Seth Green, Emo Phillips, Chris Hardwick, John Hodgman, and more.
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There’s a lot of different ways that a song would be a challenge to parody.
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And then I’ll try and arrange them in a way that they would tell a semi-cohesive story.
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Got a brand new semi-automatic weapon with a laser sight. Oh, I’m praying that somebody tries to break in here tonight.
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As much as people are griping about the Internet taking sales away from artists, it’s been a huge promotional tool for me.
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