I 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 YANKOVICIt’s hard to force creativity and humor.
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It’s hard to force creativity and humor.
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People never ask people doing serious music, ‘Do you ever think about doing funny music?’
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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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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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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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I’m obviously not a rapper, and I don’t have any claims to be one, really.
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I can bend paper clips into the shapes of small animals.
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When I swore that you’re getting more and more beautiful everyday. Well, I was only kidding, honey.
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A lot of rap songs don’t usually have a lot of melody per se.
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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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So then why get upset if somebody like me Tries to look at the world just a bit differently?
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You don’t need to be defined by your job.
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If money can’t buy happiness, then I guess I’ll have to rent it.
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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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I’ve always known that if I recorded an album, it would come out, and people would enjoy it!
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