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 YANKOVICThey 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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I mean, I hate to gloat, but I’m extremely satisfied with my position in life and the way things have worked out for 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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My brothers and sisters hated me because I was an only child.
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I can bend paper clips into the shapes of small animals.
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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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It’s hard to force creativity and humor.
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He died a long painful death. However, you’ll be happy to hear that just a few years later he was reincarnated as Shirley MacLaine.
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As it turns out, there is a thing called the Internet, and stuff does go out there whether the suits like it or not.
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I don’t watch a lot of other people’s parodies because I don’t want to be unduly influenced.
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One of the hardest things I’ve had to deal with in my career is keeping my material topical even though I only release albums every three or four years.
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So that was a joke that I continue up to this very day.
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When I started out, I didn’t feel like I was really accepted in the music or comedy communities, and I was somewhere on the edge, but now I feel like I’m accepted in both, which is extremely gratifying.
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How can you get bored if the audience is cheering and laughing at something you’re doing?
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I’ll be mellow when I’m dead.
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I like to think that I’ve gotten better at what I do. I spend more time and pay more attention to detail album after album. But pretty much it’s stayed the same.
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That’s something the kids should know about. Reading is a gateway to witchcraft and lesbianism.
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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.
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I can’t get too offended when somebody parodies me.
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I make charts of songs that are good candidates, good targets, so to speak.
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I decided that I wanted to be a voice on every animated cartoon in the history of the world – even shows that haven’t been on the air for a very long time, that’s going to be harder to pull off.
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I was able to come up with a couple articles for the magazine, I was able to solicit help from a bunch of my friends to contribute pieces: Patton Oswalt, Seth Green, Emo Phillips, Chris Hardwick, John Hodgman, and more.
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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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Some people want to advertise their weirdness, and spread it out, that’s not me.
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Probably 90 percent of my albums have polka medleys.
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It was difficult to get into my friends’ rock bands when I was a teenager.
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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.
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