Al Yankovic Quotes, Week Quotes

I'm watching the charts every week and hoping something will pop into my head.

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I make charts of songs that are good candidates, good targets, so to speak. Then I try to come up with ideas for parodies. And 99% of those ideas are horrible.

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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 known for being an up, high-energy, and optimistic kind of guy.

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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'm a music fan, and I can listen to the radio, or music, without thinking, "How am I going to screw this up?" [Laughs] If I'm really actively trying to think of a parody, then I'll have my antenna out, and be a little more proactive about it.

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I'd rather clean all the bathrooms in Grand Central Station with my tongue than spend one more minute with you.

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My brothers and sisters hated me because I was an only child.

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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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I love the way they run in fright when I turn on the kitchen light. And when I squish them on the ground, they make a pleasant crunchy sound.

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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, 'I don't want to hear about this train being derailed! What happened to 'The Flintstones'?'

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People say releasing an album is like giving birth, but it’s more like having a gallbladder operation.

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I try not to go the obvious route all the time, but sometimes the most obvious is actually the best.

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At this point I've got a bit of a track record. So people realize that when 'Weird Al' wants to go parody, it's not meant to make them look bad... it's meant to be a tribute.

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There are a lot of songs that would ostensibly be a good candidate for parody, yet I can't think of a clever enough idea.

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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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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. Not only are they just great, nice guys; they're some of the best musicians you're likely to find. They do everything from gangsta rap to polka music and every genre in between. It's amazing.

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Velvet Elvis never puts on weight.

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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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I can't get too offended when somebody parodies me.

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