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.
AL YANKOVICIt fit pretty nicely into my schedule because we’d pretty much finished the bulk of promotion for Mandatory Fun and were just getting geared up for the World Tour so this was a nice time for me to be working on it.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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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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You can try on our suede underwear if you choose. Do what you want, but don’t step on my blue suede shoes.
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If money can’t buy happiness, then I guess I’ll have to rent it.
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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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I like to think that I’ve gotten better at what I do. I spend more time and pay more attention to detail album after album. But pretty much it’s stayed the same.
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There’s a lot of different ways that a song would be a challenge to parody.
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I’m very analytical, I’m very precise.
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So I’m one of the few celebrities that got to do a repeat performance on ‘The Simpsons,’ which I’m very flattered by.
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There are a lot of songs that would ostensibly be a good candidate for parody, yet I can’t think of a clever enough idea.
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I’m very analytical, I’m very precise. I mean, I don’t write for kids.
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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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Left all my Beatle records out in the sun, got a coke bottle stuck on the end of my tongue.
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Whereas if I wrote a movie script, chances are better than even that I’d just be another guy in L.A. with a movie script in his drawer.
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Pop culture’s gotten much more disposable.
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I try to pick songs that I actually like because I realize that I have to live with these songs for a long time, from when I’m working on them in the studio to possibly playing them onstage for the rest of my life.
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