Some people want to advertise their weirdness, and spread it out, that’s not me.
AL YANKOVICI don’t want to pooh-pooh modern pop. I appreciate that as well, but my personal favorite kind of music is guitar-based rock. I like grunge and garage bands and alternative music, but that’s more my personal taste.
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My velvet Elvis means the world to me. Although he may not be worth much dough, he means more to me than some old Rembrandt or Van Gogh.
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Velvet Elvis never puts on weight.
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I’m watching the charts every week and hoping something will pop into my head.
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Some songs are too repetitive for me to be able to fashion a humorous set of lyrics around. Some songs flat-out just don’t work creatively for me.
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I try to pick songs that I actually like because I realize that I have to live with these songs for a long time, from when I’m working on them in the studio to possibly playing them onstage for the rest of my life.
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If something is good enough, it can be out there and people will see it.
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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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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 make charts of songs that are good candidates, good targets, so to speak.
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And then I’ll try and arrange them in a way that they would tell a semi-cohesive story.
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Take down those naked pictures of Ernest Borgnine.
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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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By the time I’m in the studio recording my parody, 10,000 parodies of that song are on YouTube.
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A lot of my cartoon voices are basically just variations on my natural voice.
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I have very mixed feelings about it. On one hand, I’m concerned that the rampant downloading of my copyright-protected material over the Internet is severely eating into my album sales and having a decidedly adverse effect on my career.
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