I enjoy all kinds of music. But it is kind of strange when I do parodies, instead of setting up drums and guitar amps.
AL YANKOVICI try not to go the obvious route all the time, but sometimes the most obvious is actually the best.
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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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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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There aren’t that many superstars around anymore.
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You fake something until you’re good at it.
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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.
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I guess I lost a little bit of self-esteem that time that you made it with the whole hockey team.
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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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I’d like to be able to be more topical and timely and more of-the-moment and I think the way to do that is, instead of waiting until I have twelve songs to release all at once, just to release them as I come up with them.
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No Joni Mitchell 8 track tapes in my car.
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I don’t think there are any new media I’d like to cover.
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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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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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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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You make me wanna staple bagels to my face, then remove them with a pitchfork.
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Pop culture’s gotten much more disposable.
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