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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More Al Yankovic Quotes
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A lot of artists have really been supportive over the years.
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I’m stranded all alone in the gas station of love, and I have to use the self service pump.
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I can bend paper clips into the shapes of small animals.
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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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Boys like Peter are afraid of alot of things, like nuclear annihilation and flunking algebra, but they’re not afraid of wolves.
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Maybe I’ll make a huge color tapestry from my belly button lint.
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People say releasing an album is like giving birth, but it’s more like having a gallbladder operation.
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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 know now that everything I write, I’m going to put out, and I’ll have to live with it for the rest of my life.
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I like the guitar-driven music of Nirvana at its peak. At that point, I thought there was a lot of really exciting music coming out.
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My velvet Elvis means the world to me. Although he may not be worth much dough, he means more to me than some old Rembrandt or Van Gogh.
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I enjoy all kinds of music. But it is kind of strange when I do parodies, instead of setting up drums and guitar amps.
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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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So that’s why one of my rules of parody writing is that it’s gotta be funny regardless of whether you know the source material. It has to work on its own merit.
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I don’t think there are any new media I’d like to cover.
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