You can try on our suede underwear if you choose. Do what you want, but don’t step on my blue suede shoes.
AL YANKOVICI don’t like to label myself. I know I’m very hard to pigeonhole.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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I can’t get too offended when somebody parodies me.
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I 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.
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It’s very much a “Weird Al” themed issue, so I’d like to think that there’s a lot of “Weird Al” flavor throughout but I think it’d be generous really to call me an editor.
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On the other hand, I can get all the Metallica songs I want for FREE! WOW!
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I was able to come up with a couple articles for the magazine, I was able to solicit help from a bunch of my friends to contribute pieces: Patton Oswalt, Seth Green, Emo Phillips, Chris Hardwick, John Hodgman, and more.
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The music has always been my bread and butter, and I’ve focused more of my attention on that.
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I knew we were having problems when you put those piranhas in my bathtub again.
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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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Not any specific one, but I was a huge fan of Frank Jacobs, I guess he wrote the plurality of the song parodies for MAD, Sam Hart, a few others, but that was also where I was first exposed to the art form of song parodies.
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I try not to go the obvious route all the time, but sometimes the most obvious is actually the best.
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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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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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People say releasing an album is like giving birth, but it’s more like having a gallbladder operation.
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By the time I’m in the studio recording my parody, 10,000 parodies of that song are on YouTube.
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Take down those naked pictures of Ernest Borgnine.
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