If you want to avoid heated arguments, never discuss religion, politics, or whether the toilet paper roll should go over or under.
AL YANKOVICI 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.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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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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It’s hard to really articulate what the parameters are that make one song parody-able and another song not, but if I can come up with a good enough idea for it, I go for it, and if not, then I have to move on.
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I’m watching the charts every week and hoping something will pop into my head.
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That’s a big part of my life – doing things that I’m not prepared to do.
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Midget wrestling on channel 3, it costs me 50 bucks a month.
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It was difficult to get into my friends’ rock bands when I was a teenager.
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It’s hard to force creativity and humor.
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I’d like to be able to be more topical and timely and more of-the-moment and I think the way to do that is, instead of waiting until I have twelve songs to release all at once, just to release them as I come up with them.
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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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Now with internet culture it seems like everyone is doing music parodies. And they’re not all good!
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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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Pop culture’s gotten much more disposable.
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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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I don’t watch anything on a regular basis – I tend to binge-watch things.
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It becomes more important to me as time goes on to make every album the best thing I’ve ever done, so it’s a lot of self-imposed pressure that also kind of slows me down a bit.
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