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.
AL YANKOVICI know I’m a million times as humble as thou art!
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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So I try not to pick songs that I know would drive me crazy.
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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 can bend paper clips into the shapes of small animals.
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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 like the guitar-driven music of Nirvana at its peak. At that point, I thought there was a lot of really exciting music coming out.
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I start with a comprehensive list of all the recent songs that have been big hits – and then I go down that list and see if I can come up with funny ideas for them. I can always come up with ideas, but not necessarily good ones!
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Didn’t have Nintendo, we just poured salt on snails.
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I’ve done a movie and a TV series, and someday I’d like to do a successful movie and a successful TV series. That would be nice.
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I can’t get too offended when somebody parodies me.
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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 don’t watch anything on a regular basis – I tend to binge-watch things.
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I did have a child, and I was reading a lot of picture books to her, but at the same time writing a children’s book was something that I’d been wanting to do for many years, pretty much since the start of my career.
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If money can’t buy happiness, then I guess I’ll have to rent it.
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I’m watching the charts every week and hoping something will pop into my head.
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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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