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Al Yankovic

It doesn’t take a military genius to see we’ll all be crispy critters after World War III.
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Critter Genius Look Military Peace School Second War World
Right now I’m listening to a lot of Top 40 music, because THAT’S MY JOB.
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Forty Job Listen Music Now Right Top
I enjoy all kinds of music. But it is kind of strange when I do parodies, instead of setting up drums and guitar amps.
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Appreciate Enjoy Favorite Gitar Kind Music Personal Set Strange Well
I’m just a no-good, scum sucking, nose picking, boot licking, sniveling, groveling, worthless hunk of slime.
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Boot Esteem Good Grovel Hunk Low Nose Self Slime Worthless
A lot of rap songs don’t usually have a lot of melody per se.
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Melody Rap Song Usually
By the time I’m in the studio recording my parody, 10,000 parodies of that song are on YouTube.
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Parody Recording Song Studio Time YouTube
That’s a big part of my life – doing things that I’m not prepared to do.
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Big Comfort Depth Life Part Prepare Try
I don’t like to label myself. I know I’m very hard to pigeonhole.
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Hard Know Label Like Myself Pigeon
I’m a music fan, and I can listen to the radio, or music, without thinking, “How am I going to screw this up?” [Laughs] If I’m really actively trying to think of a parody, then I’ll have my antenna out, and be a little more proactive about it.
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Fan Go Laugh Radio Screw Think Try
So I try not to pick songs that I know would drive me crazy.
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Crazy Drive Know Pick Song Try
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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Friend Funny Genesis Medley Polka Rock Song Soun Think
In a genre where most of the artists are one-hit wonders, I’ve been able to hang around longer than most “serious” acts. I pride myself in being a very talented leech.
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Around Artist Genre Hang Longer Most Serious Talent Wonder
My personal taste doesn’t enter into it a lot when I make my decisions as to what to parody.
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Book Decison Enetr Parody Personal Read
What kind of morons do you have working at newspapers in Austin that would base an entire review of an artist’s performance on whether or not they had a good seat?
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Artist Attention Austin Kind More Music
I’ll be mellow when I’m dead.
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Dead Death Mellow Suicide
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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Been Big Down Hit Idea List Recent Song
If something is good enough, it can be out there and people will see it.
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Enough Good People See Something
Take down those naked pictures of Ernest Borgnine.
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Down Naked Picture Take
I cut my teeth playing rock songs on the accordion when I was a teenager and my friends always thought that was extremely amusing.
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Accordion Amuse Cut Extreme Paly Rock Song Teenage
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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Album Best Done Go Important Next Self Thing Time
Because you’re supposed to lose yourself in the character, but sometimes people look at a character and go “Oh, it’s ‘Weird Al.'”
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Character Look People Sometimes Suppose Weird Yourself
As a wise man once said, “April Fools Day is for amateurs. You NEVER need an excuse to mess with people’s heads.”
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April Day Excuse Fool Man never People Wise
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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Everybody Forty Know Radio Show Still Superstar
I don’t really look at myself as the kind of person who craves attention, but I’ve never been to therapy so there’s probably a lot of stuff about myself that I don’t know.
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Attention Crave Look Person Probably Stuff Therapy
You make me wanna staple bagels to my face, then remove them with a pitchfork.
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Bagel Face Pitchfork Remove Staple Wanna
A lot of artists have really been supportive over the years.
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Artist Supportive Year
He put Ben Gay inside my jock strap and filled my tooth paste tube up with glue.
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Gay Inside Jock Paste Revenge Strap Tooth Tube

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