It doesn’t take a military genius to see we’ll all be crispy critters after World War III.
AL YANKOVICLike, I have had moments, which I think most people have, where you’ll be watching TV, and it’ll be interrupted by some tragic event, and you’ll actually find yourself thinking,
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I can bend paper clips into the shapes of small animals.
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I start with a comprehensive list of all the recent songs that have been big hits – and then I go down that list and see if I can come up with funny ideas for them. I can always come up with ideas, but not necessarily good ones!
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A lot of rap songs don’t usually have a lot of melody per se.
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He put Ben Gay inside my jock strap and filled my tooth paste tube up with glue.
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You can play some schlock like New Kids On the Block.
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It becomes more important to me as time goes on to make every album the best thing I’ve ever done, so it’s a lot of self-imposed pressure that also kind of slows me down a bit.
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I don’t watch anything on a regular basis – I tend to binge-watch things.
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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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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’m always a little leery about doing shows where I’m not the headliner because when I first started playing in 1982 I opened for Missing Persons and got pelted for 45 minutes.
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Beans, beans, the magic legumes – the more you ingest, the more you consume.
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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.
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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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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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There aren’t that many superstars around anymore.
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