I’m very analytical, I’m very precise. I mean, I don’t write for kids.
AL YANKOVICI make charts of songs that are good candidates, good targets, so to speak.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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Got a brand new semi-automatic weapon with a laser sight. Oh, I’m praying that somebody tries to break in here tonight.
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Like, I have had moments, which I think most people have, where you’ll be watching TV, and it’ll be interrupted by some tragic event, and you’ll actually find yourself thinking,
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I try to pick songs that I actually like because I realize that I have to live with these songs for a long time, from when I’m working on them in the studio to possibly playing them onstage for the rest of my life.
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I enjoy all kinds of music. But it is kind of strange when I do parodies, instead of setting up drums and guitar amps.
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There’s enough people that do unfunny music. I’ll leave the serious stuff to Paris Hilton and Kevin Federline.
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I don’t want to pooh-pooh modern pop. I appreciate that as well, but my personal favorite kind of music is guitar-based rock. I like grunge and garage bands and alternative music, but that’s more my personal taste.
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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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I like to think that I’ve gotten better at what I do. I spend more time and pay more attention to detail album after album. But pretty much it’s stayed the same.
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Not any specific one, but I was a huge fan of Frank Jacobs, I guess he wrote the plurality of the song parodies for MAD, Sam Hart, a few others, but that was also where I was first exposed to the art form of song parodies.
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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’m still a geek on the inside, that’s the important thing.
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It’s very much a “Weird Al” themed issue, so I’d like to think that there’s a lot of “Weird Al” flavor throughout but I think it’d be generous really to call me an editor.
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Maybe I’ll make a huge color tapestry from my belly button lint.
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I’ve learned how to use my spam filter pretty effectively.
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You make me wanna staple bagels to my face, then remove them with a pitchfork.
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I can bend paper clips into the shapes of small animals.
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You got me stranded on the bungee tower of love.
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They do everything from gangsta rap to polka music and every genre in between. It’s amazing.
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I don’t like to label myself. I know I’m very hard to pigeonhole.
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It was difficult to get into my friends’ rock bands when I was a teenager.
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Not only are they just great, nice guys; they’re some of the best musicians you’re likely to find.
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If something is good enough, it can be out there and people will see it.
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Ever 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.
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I’ve always enjoyed animation and voiceover work. That’s something that I’ve been proactive about.
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I can’t say enough good things about my band. I feel very fortunate that I found them when I did, very early in my career.
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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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