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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.

Al Yankovic

I can bend paper clips into the shapes of small animals.
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Animal Bend Paper Shape Work
And then I’ll try and arrange them in a way that they would tell a semi-cohesive story.
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Arrange Cohesive Semi Story Try Way
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.
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Candidate Clever Enough Good Ostensibly Parody Song Think
He put Ben Gay inside my jock strap and filled my tooth paste tube up with glue.
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Gay Inside Jock Paste Revenge Strap Tooth Tube
My personal taste doesn’t enter into it a lot when I make my decisions as to what to parody.
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Book Decison Enetr Parody Personal Read
About four or five months ago, at a dinner in New York, John made the very nice offer of my being guest editor for an issue of MAD and I thought about it for about half a nanosecond and decided that was a pretty good idea.
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Editor Five Good Guest Idea Issue Month Nanosecond Nice Offer Pretty
People never ask people doing serious music, ‘Do you ever think about doing funny music?’
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Do Funny Music People Serious Think
I’m obviously not a rapper, and I don’t have any claims to be one, really.
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Claim Obvious One Rapper Real
If money can’t buy happiness, then I guess I’ll have to rent it.
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Buy Happiness Guess Money Rent Sassy
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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Although Dough Mean Some Velvet World Worth
There’s a lot of different ways that a song would be a challenge to parody.
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Arm Challenge Clever Different Fashion Lot Parody Sign Song
I don’t want to pooh-pooh modern pop. I appreciate that as well, but my personal favorite kind of music is guitar-based rock. I like grunge and garage bands and alternative music, but that’s more my personal taste.
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Appreciate Favorite Guitar Kind Modern Music Personal Pooh Pop
There’s enough people that do unfunny music. I’ll leave the serious stuff to Paris Hilton and Kevin Federline.
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Country Enough Music People Serious Stuff Unfunny
My brothers and sisters hated me because I was an only child.
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Brother Children Hate Only Child Sister
So then why get upset if somebody like me Tries to look at the world just a bit differently?
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Differently Kind Somebody Thing Tries Upset
In fact, when I come up with an idea for a parody I try to resist the urge to Google the idea to see if someone has done it already because the answer is almost always, “Yes, of course they have, they’ve thought of it!”
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Come Fact Google Idea Parody Resist Someone

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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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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