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 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 say enough good things about my band. I feel very fortunate that I found them when I did, very early in my career.
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I don’t want to pooh-pooh modern pop. I appreciate that as well, but my personal favorite kind of music is guitar-based rock. I like grunge and garage bands and alternative music, but that’s more my personal taste.
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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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Many years ago I found out something about hamburgers that really grossed me out. You may not know this, so I hope I don’t make you sick, but it turns out hamburgers are actually made out of dead cows.
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As a wise man once said, “April Fools Day is for amateurs. You NEVER need an excuse to mess with people’s heads.”
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It 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.
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Because you’re supposed to lose yourself in the character, but sometimes people look at a character and go “Oh, it’s ‘Weird Al.'”
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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’m obviously not a rapper, and I don’t have any claims to be one, really.
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Kind of wish I was dead. Maybe, I’ll blow my brains out, mama, or maybe I’ll go bowling.
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Some people want to advertise their weirdness, and spread it out, that’s not me.
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There’s enough people that do unfunny music. I’ll leave the serious stuff to Paris Hilton and Kevin Federline.
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Now with internet culture it seems like everyone is doing music parodies. And they’re not all good!
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As it turns out, there is a thing called the Internet, and stuff does go out there whether the suits like it or not.
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You can play some schlock like New Kids On the Block.
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