A lot of my cartoon voices are basically just variations on my natural voice.
AL YANKOVICLike, 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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I am not making this up. Needless to say, as soon as I discovered that, I gave up meat entirely.
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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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Now with internet culture it seems like everyone is doing music parodies. And they’re not all good!
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Take down those naked pictures of Ernest Borgnine.
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I tend to enunciate pretty well. It’s always seemed that my voice is one of those voices that people can recognize pretty easily – which has been a bit of a drawback for some characters.
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Midget wrestling on channel 3, it costs me 50 bucks a month.
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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.
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One of my pet peeves is that sometimes the talents of my band get overlooked because, and it was the same problem that Frank Zappa had, with a lot of groups that use humor, people don’t realize there’s a lot of craft behind the comedy.
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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 try not to go the obvious route all the time, but sometimes the most obvious is actually the best.
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There are probably a few library fines I haven’t paid yet, but I’m a pretty clean-cut guy overall.
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Buy our album, were Nirvana, a garage band from Seattle. Well, it sure beats raising cattle.
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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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Somebody will come up to me after a show and have me sign their arm, and the next time I see them my autograph has been permanently inscribed on their arm.
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Doing things that I don’t know how to do, and keep doing them until I get good at them.
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