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.
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 was a kid, I thought I was going to be an architect, because when I was 12 years old I had a guidance counselor that convinced me that that was the best career choice for me.
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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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Left all my Beatle records out in the sun, got a coke bottle stuck on the end of my tongue.
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A lot of rap songs don’t usually have a lot of melody per se.
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Pop culture’s gotten much more disposable.
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I know now that everything I write, I’m going to put out, and I’ll have to live with it for the rest of my life.
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My personal taste doesn’t enter into it a lot when I make my decisions as to what to parody.
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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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My brothers and sisters hated me because I was an only child.
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There’s a lot of different ways that a song would be a challenge to parody.
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I make charts of songs that are good candidates, good targets, so to speak.
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A lot of artists have really been supportive over the years.
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If money can’t buy happiness, then I guess I’ll have to rent it.
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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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How can you get bored if the audience is cheering and laughing at something you’re doing?
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