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Parody Quotes by Al Yankovic
- 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…
- My personal taste doesn't enter into it a lot when I make my decisions as to what to parody.
- So that's why one of my rules of parody writing is that it's gotta be funny regardless of whether you know the source material. It…
- 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.
- Whenever I do a parody it's not meant to make you hate anybody's music really.
- 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…
- By the time I'm in the studio recording my parody, 10,000 parodies of that song are on YouTube.
- I can't get too offended when somebody parodies me.
- 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…
- 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…
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