You still have Top 40 radio now, but it’s 40 different stations. There aren’t many hits that everybody knows, and there aren’t many real superstars.
AL YANKOVICThere aren’t that many superstars around anymore.
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I dated Siamese twins, I slept with Big Foot, too. Get me on Sally Jesse, put me on Donahue.
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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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There aren’t that many superstars around anymore.
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Boys like Peter are afraid of alot of things, like nuclear annihilation and flunking algebra, but they’re not afraid of wolves.
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My own personal tastes don’t really have an effect on whether song is a parody target or not. But having said that,
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Didn’t have Nintendo, we just poured salt on snails.
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Velvet Elvis never puts on weight.
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As a kid, I certainly never thought I would get to spend my life doing something fun.
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I have a long-standing history of respecting artists’ wishes.
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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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Then I try to come up with ideas for parodies. And 99% of those ideas are horrible.
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The music has always been my bread and butter, and I’ve focused more of my attention on that.
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Some people want to advertise their weirdness, and spread it out, that’s not me.
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I knew we were having problems when you put those piranhas in my bathtub again.
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I write and write and write, and then I edit it down to the parts that I think are amusing, or that help the storyline, or I’ll write a notebook full of ideas of anecdotes or story points.
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