Sometimes I get, “Have you ever thought about doing real music?” I like to think the music I do is real, it just happens to be funny.
AL YANKOVICI think that nerds, if you want to call them that, have only gotten more hip and assimilated into the culture.
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Not any specific one, but I was a huge fan of Frank Jacobs, I guess he wrote the plurality of the song parodies for MAD, Sam Hart, a few others, but that was also where I was first exposed to the art form of song parodies.
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There are probably a few library fines I haven’t paid yet, but I’m a pretty clean-cut guy overall.
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I try not to go the obvious route all the time, but sometimes the most obvious is actually the best.
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Right now I’m listening to a lot of Top 40 music, because THAT’S MY JOB.
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I can bend paper clips into the shapes of small animals.
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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 think that nerds, if you want to call them that, have only gotten more hip and assimilated into the culture.
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I love the way they run in fright when I turn on the kitchen light. And when I squish them on the ground, they make a pleasant crunchy sound.
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In the ’80s, I was putting out an album virtually every year, I think mostly based on fear – that if I didn’t, people would soon forget about me.
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I’m very analytical, I’m very precise.
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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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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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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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I’d rather clean all the bathrooms in Grand Central Station with my tongue than spend one more minute with you.
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Whenever I do a parody it’s not meant to make you hate anybody’s music really.
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