A lot of artists have really been supportive over the years.
AL YANKOVICYou can try on our suede underwear if you choose. Do what you want, but don’t step on my blue suede shoes.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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I can’t get too offended when somebody parodies me.
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You still have Top 40 radio now, but it’s 40 different stations. There aren’t many hits that everybody knows, and there aren’t many real superstars.
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So that was a joke that I continue up to this very day.
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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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One of my pet peeves is that sometimes the talents of my band get overlooked because, and it was the same problem that Frank Zappa had, with a lot of groups that use humor, people don’t realize there’s a lot of craft behind the comedy.
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There aren’t that many superstars around anymore.
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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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Midget wrestling on channel 3, it costs me 50 bucks a month.
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No Joni Mitchell 8 track tapes in my car.
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It’s hard to force creativity and humor.
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I don’t really look at myself as the kind of person who craves attention, but I’ve never been to therapy so there’s probably a lot of stuff about myself that I don’t know.
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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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I cut my teeth playing rock songs on the accordion when I was a teenager and my friends always thought that was extremely amusing.
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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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He put Ben Gay inside my jock strap and filled my tooth paste tube up with glue.
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