If I could find the right kind of property, get tied in with the right movie, I’d love to be involved, but I just find it hard to be motivated to do another screenplay right now.
AL YANKOVICIn fact, when I come up with an idea for a parody I try to resist the urge to Google the idea to see if someone has done it already because the answer is almost always, “Yes, of course they have, they’ve thought of it!”
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I cut my teeth playing rock songs on the accordion when I was a teenager and my friends always thought that was extremely amusing.
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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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It doesn’t take a military genius to see we’ll all be crispy critters after World War III.
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The window doesn’t open, the fan is broke, and my face is turning blue. I haven’t been in a crowd like this since I went to see the Who.
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I guess I lost a little bit of self-esteem that time that you made it with the whole hockey team.
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So I try not to pick songs that I know would drive me crazy.
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They do everything from gangsta rap to polka music and every genre in between. It’s amazing.
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Nows the time to go for all the gusto you can grab. You’ll have plenty of time to be low-key when you’re laid out on the slab.
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Left all my Beatle records out in the sun, got a coke bottle stuck on the end of my tongue.
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It was difficult to get into my friends’ rock bands when I was a teenager.
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I mean, I hate to gloat, but I’m extremely satisfied with my position in life and the way things have worked out for me.
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I think my chances of ever making it into the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame are about as good as Milli Vanilli’s.
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In the ’80s, I was the only game in town, I was the only one getting that kind of exposure in any rotation on MTV.
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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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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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