You still have Top 40 radio now, but it’s 40 different stations. There aren’t many hits that everybody knows, and there aren’t many real superstars.
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More Al Yankovic Quotes
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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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When I go to my live shows it’s often a multigenerational audience, a family bonding experience.
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How can you get bored if the audience is cheering and laughing at something you’re doing?
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I think that was the genesis of my polka medleys, because every rock song I played on the accordion just sounded like a polka and my friends thought it was funny.
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It doesn’t take a military genius to see we’ll all be crispy critters after World War III.
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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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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 can bend paper clips into the shapes of small animals.
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A lot of rap songs don’t usually have a lot of melody per se.
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There aren’t that many superstars around anymore.
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So I try not to pick songs that I know would drive me crazy.
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You make me wanna staple bagels to my face, then remove them with a pitchfork.
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Buy our album, were Nirvana, a garage band from Seattle. Well, it sure beats raising cattle.
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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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You fake something until you’re good at it.
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