There are a lot of songs that would ostensibly be a good candidate for parody, yet I can’t think of a clever enough idea.
AL YANKOVICI 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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I always try to put myself out of my comfort zone and out of my depth, and hopefully somewhere along the line I’ll catch up.
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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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Nows the time to go for all the gusto you can grab. You’ll have plenty of time to be low-key when you’re laid out on the slab.
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Some people want to advertise their weirdness, and spread it out, that’s not me.
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Now with internet culture it seems like everyone is doing music parodies. And they’re not all good!
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That’s a big part of my life – doing things that I’m not prepared to do.
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In the ’80s, I was putting out an album virtually every year, I think mostly based on fear – that if I didn’t, people would soon forget about me.
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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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Many years ago I found out something about hamburgers that really grossed me out. You may not know this, so I hope I don’t make you sick, but it turns out hamburgers are actually made out of dead cows.
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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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My hobbies just sort of gradually became my vocation.
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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 don’t really look at myself as the kind of person who craves attention, but I’ve never been to therapy so there’s probably a lot of stuff about myself that I don’t know.
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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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I’d rather clean all the bathrooms in Grand Central Station with my tongue than spend one more minute with you.
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