My velvet Elvis means the world to me. Although he may not be worth much dough, he means more to me than some old Rembrandt or Van Gogh.
AL YANKOVICNows the time to go for all the gusto you can grab. You’ll have plenty of time to be low-key when you’re laid out on the slab.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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When I go to my live shows it’s often a multigenerational audience, a family bonding experience.
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I know I’m a million times as humble as thou art!
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There’s a lot of different ways that a song would be a challenge to parody.
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My wife went off with Elvis.
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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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You can play some schlock like New Kids On the Block.
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You fake something until you’re good at it.
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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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I do original songs in the style of other artists, where I try to learn all their musical idiosyncrasies and try to do something that sounds like them and yet is a bit more sick and twisted.
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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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I’d like to be able to be more topical and timely and more of-the-moment and I think the way to do that is, instead of waiting until I have twelve songs to release all at once, just to release them as I come up with them.
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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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People never ask people doing serious music, ‘Do you ever think about doing funny music?’
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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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Probably 90 percent of my albums have polka medleys.
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