Al Yankovic Quotes About Songs

Quotes about: Songs

• I have very mixed feelings about it. On one hand, I’m concerned that the rampant downloading of my copyright-protected material over the Internet is severely eating into my album sales and having a decidedly adverse effect on my career. On the other hand, I can get all the Metallica songs I want for FREE! WOW!

  Al Yankovic

  Song, Hands, Careers

  "Weird Al's New Album Has Been Pirated 40,000 Times" by Jose Pagliery, money.cnn.com. July 24, 2014.

• There's a lot of different ways that a song would be a challenge to parody. 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. Some songs are too repetitive for me to be able to fashion a humorous set of lyrics around. Some songs flat-out just don't work creatively for me.

  Al Yankovic

  Fashion, Song, Clever

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I start with a comprehensive list of all the recent songs that have been big hits - and then I go down that list and see if I can come up with funny ideas for them. I can always come up with ideas, but not necessarily good ones!

  Al Yankovic

  Song, Ideas, Lists

• A lot of rap songs don't usually have a lot of melody per se.

  Al Yankovic

  Song, Rap, Rap Song

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

• 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.

  Al Yankovic

  Song, Artist, Ideas

  Source: www.esquire.com

• By the time I'm in the studio recording my parody, 10,000 parodies of that song are on YouTube.

  Al Yankovic

  Song, Parody, Youtube

• 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.

  Al Yankovic

  Song, Artist, Sick

  Source: www.esquire.com

• 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.

  Al Yankovic

  Song, Ideas, Trying

• My own personal tastes don't really have an effect on whether song is a parody target or not. But having said that, 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. So I try not to pick songs that I know would drive me crazy.

  Al Yankovic

  Song, Crazy, Long

  Source: www.esquire.com

• It's hard to really articulate what the parameters are that make one song parody-able and another song not, but if I can come up with a good enough idea for it, I go for it, and if not, then I have to move on.

  Al Yankovic

  Song, Moving, Ideas

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

• I cut my teeth playing rock songs on the accordion when I was a teenager and my friends always thought that was extremely amusing. I think that was the genesis of my polka medleys, because every rock song I played on the accordion just sounded like a polka and my friends thought it was funny. So that was a joke that I continue up to this very day.

  Al Yankovic

  Song, Teenager, Cutting

  Source: www.esquire.com

• 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.

  Al Yankovic

  Song, Clever, Thinking

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

• 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.

  Al Yankovic

  Song, Thinking, Waiting

  Source: www.esquire.com

• 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.

  Al Yankovic

  Song, Art, Mad

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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