My personal taste doesn’t enter into it a lot when I make my decisions as to what to parody.
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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When I started out, I didn’t feel like I was really accepted in the music or comedy communities, and I was somewhere on the edge, but now I feel like I’m accepted in both, which is extremely gratifying.
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One of the hardest things I’ve had to deal with in my career is keeping my material topical even though I only release albums every three or four years.
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Then I try to come up with ideas for parodies. And 99% of those ideas are horrible.
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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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You slammed my face down on the barbecue grill, now my scars are all healing, but my heart never will.
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One of my pet peeves is that sometimes the talents of my band get overlooked because, and it was the same problem that Frank Zappa had, with a lot of groups that use humor, people don’t realize there’s a lot of craft behind the comedy.
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You still have Top 40 radio now, but it’s 40 different stations. There aren’t many hits that everybody knows, and there aren’t many real superstars.
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I’m always a little leery about doing shows where I’m not the headliner because when I first started playing in 1982 I opened for Missing Persons and got pelted for 45 minutes.
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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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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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I can’t get too offended when somebody parodies me.
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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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I have very mixed feelings about it. On one hand, I’m concerned that the rampant downloading of my copyright-protected material over the Internet is severely eating into my album sales and having a decidedly adverse effect on my career.
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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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Got a brand new semi-automatic weapon with a laser sight. Oh, I’m praying that somebody tries to break in here tonight.
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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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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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Probably 90 percent of my albums have polka medleys.
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I’m a music fan, and I can listen to the radio, or music, without thinking, “How am I going to screw this up?” [Laughs] If I’m really actively trying to think of a parody, then I’ll have my antenna out, and be a little more proactive about it.
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As my father used to tell me, the only true sign of success in life is being able to do for a living that which makes you happy.
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Until you came along I never dated anyone this low on the food chain.
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When I swore that you’re getting more and more beautiful everyday. Well, I was only kidding, honey.
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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’ve always known that if I recorded an album, it would come out, and people would enjoy it!
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Velvet Elvis never puts on weight.
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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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