You slammed my face down on the barbecue grill, now my scars are all healing, but my heart never will.
AL YANKOVICSometimes I get, “Have you ever thought about doing real music?” I like to think the music I do is real, it just happens to be funny.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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My brothers and sisters hated me because I was an only child.
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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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If you want to avoid heated arguments, never discuss religion, politics, or whether the toilet paper roll should go over or under.
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I think that nerds, if you want to call them that, have only gotten more hip and assimilated into the culture.
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I don’t think there are any new media I’d like to cover.
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You can play some schlock like New Kids On the Block.
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If I could find the right kind of property, get tied in with the right movie, I’d love to be involved, but I just find it hard to be motivated to do another screenplay right now.
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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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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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Then I try to come up with ideas for parodies. And 99% of those ideas are horrible.
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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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Pop culture’s gotten much more disposable.
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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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I’ll bet every great thinker and leader we’ve got Could see all kinds of things other people could not!
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Not only are they just great, nice guys; they’re some of the best musicians you’re likely to find.
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