I think that nerds, if you want to call them that, have only gotten more hip and assimilated into the culture.
AL YANKOVICI think that nerds, if you want to call them that, have only gotten more hip and assimilated into the culture.
AL YANKOVICIt’s hard to really articulate what the parameters are that make one song parody-able and another song not, but if I can come up with a good enough idea for it, I go for it, and if not, then I have to move on.
AL YANKOVICI 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 YANKOVICI think my chances of ever making it into the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame are about as good as Milli Vanilli’s.
AL YANKOVICYou fake something until you’re good at it.
AL YANKOVICHe died a long painful death. However, you’ll be happy to hear that just a few years later he was reincarnated as Shirley MacLaine.
AL YANKOVICI always try to put myself out of my comfort zone and out of my depth, and hopefully somewhere along the line I’ll catch up.
AL YANKOVICI don’t want to hear about this train being derailed! What happened to ‘The Flintstones’?’
AL YANKOVICIt fit pretty nicely into my schedule because we’d pretty much finished the bulk of promotion for Mandatory Fun and were just getting geared up for the World Tour so this was a nice time for me to be working on it.
AL YANKOVICI 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.
AL YANKOVICI knew we were having problems when you put those piranhas in my bathtub again.
AL YANKOVICUntil you came along I never dated anyone this low on the food chain.
AL YANKOVICBy the time I’m in the studio recording my parody, 10,000 parodies of that song are on YouTube.
AL YANKOVICI 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.
AL YANKOVICMidget wrestling on channel 3, it costs me 50 bucks a month.
AL YANKOVICI’m known for being an up, high-energy, and optimistic kind of guy.
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