I can’t get too offended when somebody parodies me.
AL YANKOVICI make charts of songs that are good candidates, good targets, so to speak.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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A lot of my cartoon voices are basically just variations on my natural voice.
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I can bend paper clips into the shapes of small animals.
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The irony is of course that my career has lasted a whole lot longer than some of the people I’ve parodied over the years.
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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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You don’t need to be defined by your job.
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I’m free to do what I please, I’m probably not going to do albums. Just because I think releasing tracks as singles is a better way for me to stay topical.
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I think my chances of ever making it into the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame are about as good as Milli Vanilli’s.
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I was able to come up with a couple articles for the magazine, I was able to solicit help from a bunch of my friends to contribute pieces: Patton Oswalt, Seth Green, Emo Phillips, Chris Hardwick, John Hodgman, and more.
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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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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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After that, I made the decision to headline no matter what, even if I was playing to seven people. I wanted people to be there to see me.
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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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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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Sometimes I get, “Have you ever thought about doing real music?” I like to think the music I do is real, it just happens to be funny.
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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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