I was abducted by some aliens from space who kind a looked like Jamie Farr.
AL YANKOVICEver since the day you left me, I’ve been so miserable, my dear. I feel almost as bad as I did when you were still here.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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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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Buy our album, were Nirvana, a garage band from Seattle. Well, it sure beats raising cattle.
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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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It’s hard to force creativity and humor.
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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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Maybe I’ll make a huge color tapestry from my belly button lint.
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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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So I try not to pick songs that I know would drive me crazy.
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My process for the parodies is that I get an idea for a song and then get approval from the artist and then go in and record it and probably try to get it out as soon as possible.
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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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What kind of morons do you have working at newspapers in Austin that would base an entire review of an artist’s performance on whether or not they had a good seat?
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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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I write and write and write, and then I edit it down to the parts that I think are amusing, or that help the storyline, or I’ll write a notebook full of ideas of anecdotes or story points.
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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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He put Ben Gay inside my jock strap and filled my tooth paste tube up with glue.
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