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A lot of artists have really been supportive over the years.

Al Yankovic

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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Not only are they just great, nice guys; they’re some of the best musicians you’re likely to find.
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I’m watching the charts every week and hoping something will pop into my head.
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Sometimes I get, “Have you ever thought about doing real music?” I like to think the music I do is real, it just happens to be funny.
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As my father used to tell me, the only true sign of success in life is being able to do for a living that which makes you happy.
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He died a long painful death. However, you’ll be happy to hear that just a few years later he was reincarnated as Shirley MacLaine.
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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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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
How can you get bored if the audience is cheering and laughing at something you’re doing?
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I knew we were having problems when you put those piranhas in my bathtub again.
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I’m stranded all alone in the gas station of love, and I have to use the self service pump.
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I was abducted by some aliens from space who kind a looked like Jamie Farr.
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When I started out, I didn’t feel like I was really accepted in the music or comedy communities, and I was somewhere on the edge, but now I feel like I’m accepted in both, which is extremely gratifying.
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Accept Comedy Community Feel Gratifying Like Music Somewhere Start
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.
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I’d like to be able to be more topical and timely and more of-the-moment and I think the way to do that is, instead of waiting until I have twelve songs to release all at once, just to release them as I come up with them.
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Whenever I do a parody it’s not meant to make you hate anybody’s music really.
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Anybody Hate Make Music Parody Really
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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You can try on our suede underwear if you choose. Do what you want, but don’t step on my blue suede shoes.
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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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Experience Family Bond Live Show
About four or five months ago, at a dinner in New York, John made the very nice offer of my being guest editor for an issue of MAD and I thought about it for about half a nanosecond and decided that was a pretty good idea.
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I guess I lost a little bit of self-esteem that time that you made it with the whole hockey team.
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It was difficult to get into my friends’ rock bands when I was a teenager.
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Difficult Friend Player Rock Teenager
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’ve always enjoyed animation and voiceover work. That’s something that I’ve been proactive about.
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I’m always a little leery about doing shows where I’m not the headliner because when I first started playing in 1982 I opened for Missing Persons and got pelted for 45 minutes.
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I know I’m a million times as humble as thou art!
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There aren’t that many superstars around anymore.
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Anyone Around Many Superstar

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