My personal taste doesn’t enter into it a lot when I make my decisions as to what to parody.
AL YANKOVICThere 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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No Joni Mitchell 8 track tapes in my car.
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Every night for dinner we had a big chunk of dirt.
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Now with internet culture it seems like everyone is doing music parodies. And they’re not all good!
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I don’t like to label myself. I know I’m very hard to pigeonhole.
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It was difficult to get into my friends’ rock bands when I was a teenager.
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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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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’s hard to really articulate what the parameters are that make one song parody-able and another song not, but if I can come up with a good enough idea for it, I go for it, and if not, then I have to move on.
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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 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 knew we were having problems when you put those piranhas in my bathtub again.
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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 was a huge fan of ‘Mad’ magazine when I was 11, 12, 13 years old. I’d scour used bookstores trying to find back issues, and I’d wait at the newsstand for a new issue to come out. My life revolved around it.
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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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I make charts of songs that are good candidates, good targets, so to speak.
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