Some people want to advertise their weirdness, and spread it out, that’s not me.
AL YANKOVICWhen 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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My personal taste doesn’t enter into it a lot when I make my decisions as to what to parody.
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I have a long-standing history of respecting artists’ wishes.
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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.
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People that were a little nerdy in high school would look up to me and know it gets better.
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I am not making this up. Needless to say, as soon as I discovered that, I gave up meat entirely.
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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’m obviously not a rapper, and I don’t have any claims to be one, really.
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I’ve learned how to use my spam filter pretty effectively.
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A lot of rap songs don’t usually have a lot of melody per se.
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You got me stranded on the bungee tower of love.
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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’m known for being an up, high-energy, and optimistic kind of guy.
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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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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’m very analytical, I’m very precise. I mean, I don’t write for kids.
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