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.
AL YANKOVICYou 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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Pop culture’s gotten much more disposable.
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I think my chances of ever making it into the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame are about as good as Milli Vanilli’s.
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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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Probably 90 percent of my albums have polka medleys.
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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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I decided that I wanted to be a voice on every animated cartoon in the history of the world – even shows that haven’t been on the air for a very long time, that’s going to be harder to pull off.
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My wife went off with Elvis.
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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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I can bend paper clips into the shapes of small animals.
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They do everything from gangsta rap to polka music and every genre in between. It’s amazing.
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My brothers and sisters hated me because I was an only child.
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I know now that everything I write, I’m going to put out, and I’ll have to live with it for the rest of my life.
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When I was a kid, I thought I was going to be an architect, because when I was 12 years old I had a guidance counselor that convinced me that that was the best career choice for me.
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I do a lot of different things, sometimes at the same time, and it’s very difficult to figure out where I fit.
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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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