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.
AL YANKOVICI make charts of songs that are good candidates, good targets, so to speak.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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I don’t like to label myself. I know I’m very hard to pigeonhole.
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Take down those naked pictures of Ernest Borgnine.
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In 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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You got me stranded on the bungee tower of love.
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I don’t watch a lot of other people’s parodies because I don’t want to be unduly influenced.
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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’m one of the few celebrities that got to do a repeat performance on ‘The Simpsons,’ which I’m very flattered by.
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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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You can play some schlock like New Kids On the Block.
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About four or five months ago, at a dinner in New York, John made the very nice offer of my being guest editor for an issue of MAD and I thought about it for about half a nanosecond and decided that was a pretty good idea.
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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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Buy our album, were Nirvana, a garage band from Seattle. Well, it sure beats raising cattle.
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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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I’m known for being an up, high-energy, and optimistic kind of guy.
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You don’t need to be defined by your job.
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