I’ll be mellow when I’m dead.
AL YANKOVICIn the ’80s, I was putting out an album virtually every year, I think mostly based on fear – that if I didn’t, people would soon forget about me.
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As much as people are griping about the Internet taking sales away from artists, it’s been a huge promotional tool for me.
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They somehow didn’t see the need for an accordion player. That’s when I realized that I had to find my own path in life.
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Many years ago I found out something about hamburgers that really grossed me out. You may not know this, so I hope I don’t make you sick, but it turns out hamburgers are actually made out of dead cows.
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I’ve always known that if I recorded an album, it would come out, and people would enjoy it!
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Right now I’m listening to a lot of Top 40 music, because THAT’S MY JOB.
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You make me wanna staple bagels to my face, then remove them with a pitchfork.
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I don’t watch anything on a regular basis – I tend to binge-watch things.
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I’ve done a movie and a TV series, and someday I’d like to do a successful movie and a successful TV series. That would be nice.
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Then I try to come up with ideas for parodies. And 99% of those ideas are horrible.
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And then I’ll try and arrange them in a way that they would tell a semi-cohesive story.
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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.
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I think my chances of ever making it into the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame are about as good as Milli Vanilli’s.
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There’s a lot of different ways that a song would be a challenge to parody.
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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 very analytical, I’m very precise.
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