I guess I lost a little bit of self-esteem that time that you made it with the whole hockey team.
AL YANKOVICBy the time I’m in the studio recording my parody, 10,000 parodies of that song are on YouTube.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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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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As a wise man once said, “April Fools Day is for amateurs. You NEVER need an excuse to mess with people’s heads.”
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Right now I’m listening to a lot of Top 40 music, because THAT’S MY JOB.
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In a genre where most of the artists are one-hit wonders, I’ve been able to hang around longer than most “serious” acts. I pride myself in being a very talented leech.
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I do a lot of different things, sometimes at the same time, and it’s very difficult to figure out where I fit.
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My hobbies just sort of gradually became my vocation.
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Doing things that I don’t know how to do, and keep doing them until I get good at them.
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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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I’m watching the charts every week and hoping something will pop into my head.
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Velvet Elvis never puts on weight.
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If money can’t buy happiness, then I guess I’ll have to rent it.
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You can try on our suede underwear if you choose. Do what you want, but don’t step on my blue suede shoes.
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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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He died a long painful death. However, you’ll be happy to hear that just a few years later he was reincarnated as Shirley MacLaine.
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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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