There’s enough people that do unfunny music. I’ll leave the serious stuff to Paris Hilton and Kevin Federline.
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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My wife went off with Elvis.
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You don’t need to be defined by your job.
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There’s a lot of different ways that a song would be a challenge to parody.
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If money can’t buy happiness, then I guess I’ll have to rent it.
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There aren’t that many superstars around anymore.
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People that were a little nerdy in high school would look up to me and know it gets better.
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I don’t want to hear about this train being derailed! What happened to ‘The Flintstones’?’
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I can’t get too offended when somebody parodies me.
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My hobbies just sort of gradually became my vocation.
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It 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.
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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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I’m just a no-good, scum sucking, nose picking, boot licking, sniveling, groveling, worthless hunk of slime.
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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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So that was a joke that I continue up to this very day.
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As a kid, I certainly never thought I would get to spend my life doing something fun.
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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.
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It’s hard to force creativity and humor.
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I have very mixed feelings about it. On one hand, I’m concerned that the rampant downloading of my copyright-protected material over the Internet is severely eating into my album sales and having a decidedly adverse effect on my career.
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I can bend paper clips into the shapes of small animals.
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People never ask people doing serious music, ‘Do you ever think about doing funny music?’
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In the ’80s, I was the only game in town, I was the only one getting that kind of exposure in any rotation on MTV.
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Probably 90 percent of my albums have polka medleys.
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I’m very analytical, I’m very precise. I mean, I don’t write for kids.
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Some people want to advertise their weirdness, and spread it out, that’s not me.
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I like the guitar-driven music of Nirvana at its peak. At that point, I thought there was a lot of really exciting music coming out.
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Boys like Peter are afraid of alot of things, like nuclear annihilation and flunking algebra, but they’re not afraid of wolves.
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