Now with internet culture it seems like everyone is doing music parodies. And they’re not all good!
AL YANKOVICI don’t like to label myself. I know I’m very hard to pigeonhole.
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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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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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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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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 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 mean, I hate to gloat, but I’m extremely satisfied with my position in life and the way things have worked out for me.
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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 known for being an up, high-energy, and optimistic kind of guy.
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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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As much as people are griping about the Internet taking sales away from artists, it’s been a huge promotional tool for me.
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I try not to go the obvious route all the time, but sometimes the most obvious is actually the best.
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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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Not any specific one, but I was a huge fan of Frank Jacobs, I guess he wrote the plurality of the song parodies for MAD, Sam Hart, a few others, but that was also where I was first exposed to the art form of song parodies.
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When I swore that you’re getting more and more beautiful everyday. Well, I was only kidding, honey.
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Take down those naked pictures of Ernest Borgnine.
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