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They somehow didn’t see the need for an accordion player. That’s when I realized that I had to find my own path in life.

Al Yankovic

Ever since the day you left me, I’ve been so miserable, my dear. I feel almost as bad as I did when you were still here.
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Almost Dear Ever Feel Left Me Miserable Since You
There are probably a few library fines I haven’t paid yet, but I’m a pretty clean-cut guy overall.
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Cut Fine Guy Library Overall Paid Pretty Probably
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
Buy our album, were Nirvana, a garage band from Seattle. Well, it sure beats raising cattle.
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Album Band Bet Cattle Garage Nirvana Our Raise Seattle Sure
Doing things that I don’t know how to do, and keep doing them until I get good at them.
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Do Good Know Them Thing Until
I’ll bet every great thinker and leader we’ve got Could see all kinds of things other people could not!
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Every Great Kind Leader Not Other People Thing Upset
My own personal tastes don’t really have an effect on whether song is a parody target or not. But having said that,
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Own Personal Song Target Taste
How can you get bored if the audience is cheering and laughing at something you’re doing?
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Audience Bore Cheer Do Parody Something
Then I try to come up with ideas for parodies. And 99% of those ideas are horrible.
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Come Horrible Idea Parody
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
If you want to avoid heated arguments, never discuss religion, politics, or whether the toilet paper roll should go over or under.
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Avoid Discuss Heat Paper Political Politics Religion Toilet
So I try not to pick songs that I know would drive me crazy.
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Crazy Drive Know Pick Song Try
It’s hard to force creativity and humor.
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Creativity Force Hard Humor
So that’s why one of my rules of parody writing is that it’s gotta be funny regardless of whether you know the source material. It has to work on its own merit.
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Funny Gotta Know Material Merit Parody Regard Rule Source Write
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
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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Coming Drive Excite Guitar Lot Music Nirvana Point

They somehow didn’t see the need for an accordion player. That’s when I realized that I had to find my own path in life.

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