I don’t watch a lot of other people’s parodies because I don’t want to be unduly influenced.
AL YANKOVICYou make me wanna staple bagels to my face, then remove them with a pitchfork.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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About four or five months ago, at a dinner in New York, John made the very nice offer of my being guest editor for an issue of MAD and I thought about it for about half a nanosecond and decided that was a pretty good idea.
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And then I’ll try and arrange them in a way that they would tell a semi-cohesive story.
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They somehow didn’t see the need for an accordion player. That’s when I realized that I had to find my own path in life.
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I’d rather clean all the bathrooms in Grand Central Station with my tongue than spend one more minute with you.
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I have a long-standing history of respecting artists’ wishes.
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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 want to hear about this train being derailed! What happened to ‘The Flintstones’?’
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You fake something until you’re good at it.
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I tend to enunciate pretty well. It’s always seemed that my voice is one of those voices that people can recognize pretty easily – which has been a bit of a drawback for some characters.
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My personal taste doesn’t enter into it a lot when I make my decisions as to what to parody.
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I’m free to do what I please, I’m probably not going to do albums. Just because I think releasing tracks as singles is a better way for me to stay topical.
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A lot of artists have really been supportive over the years.
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Every night for dinner we had a big chunk of dirt.
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At this point I’ve got a bit of a track record. So people realize that when ‘Weird Al’ wants to go parody, it’s not meant to make them look bad… it’s meant to be a tribute.
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My hobbies just sort of gradually became my vocation.
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Well I’ve made no secret of my life long love of MAD Magazine, it’s probably my first and greatest influence in terms of my comic sensibilities. I’ve known John [Ficarra] for many years, and we’ve been friends.
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I always try to put myself out of my comfort zone and out of my depth, and hopefully somewhere along the line I’ll catch up.
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As much as people are griping about the Internet taking sales away from artists, it’s been a huge promotional tool for me.
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Right now I’m listening to a lot of Top 40 music, because THAT’S MY JOB.
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How can you get bored if the audience is cheering and laughing at something you’re doing?
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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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It’s hard to say, I picked one of my favorite articles for the MAD vault. Which is one of the features of the Magazine so they don’t have to actually pay artists or writers to come up with new stuff.
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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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I’m very analytical, I’m very precise. I mean, I don’t write for kids.
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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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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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