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Al Yankovic

My own personal tastes don’t really have an effect on whether song is a parody target or not. But having said that,
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Own Personal Song Target Taste
I have a long-standing history of respecting artists’ wishes.
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History Long Respect Stand Wish
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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Funny Happen Music Real Sometimes Think Thought
I’ll be mellow when I’m dead.
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Dead Death Mellow Suicide
No Joni Mitchell 8 track tapes in my car.
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Car No Tape Track
I’m a music fan, and I can listen to the radio, or music, without thinking, “How am I going to screw this up?” [Laughs] If I’m really actively trying to think of a parody, then I’ll have my antenna out, and be a little more proactive about it.
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Fan Go Laugh Radio Screw Think Try
What kind of morons do you have working at newspapers in Austin that would base an entire review of an artist’s performance on whether or not they had a good seat?
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Artist Attention Austin Kind More Music
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
If you want to avoid heated arguments, never discuss religion, politics, or whether the toilet paper roll should go over or under.
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Avoid Discuss Heat Paper Political Politics Religion Toilet
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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Career Concern Copyright Download Feel Hand MIxed One Rampant Song
You make me wanna staple bagels to my face, then remove them with a pitchfork.
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Bagel Face Pitchfork Remove Staple Wanna
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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Assimilate Call Culture Gotten More Nerd Think Want
The irony is of course that my career has lasted a whole lot longer than some of the people I’ve parodied over the years.
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Career Course Iron Last Longer Over Parody People Year
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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Bathroom Clean Grand Minute Spend Station Tongue
I try not to go the obvious route all the time, but sometimes the most obvious is actually the best.
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Actual Best Most Obvious Route Sometimes Try
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 like to think that I’ve gotten better at what I do. I spend more time and pay more attention to detail album after album. But pretty much it’s stayed the same.
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Ablum Album Attention Better Detail Gotten More Pay Spend Think Time
It fit pretty nicely into my schedule because we’d pretty much finished the bulk of promotion for Mandatory Fun and were just getting geared up for the World Tour so this was a nice time for me to be working on it.
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Bulk Finish Fit Mandatory Nicely Pretty Promotion Scheule
You can play some schlock like New Kids On the Block.
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Block Kid Kids New Play Scholar Some
I’ve always known that if I recorded an album, it would come out, and people would enjoy it!
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Album Always Come Enjoy Guy People Record Script
Some people want to advertise their weirdness, and spread it out, that’s not me.
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Advertise Out People Want Some Spread Weird
Midget wrestling on channel 3, it costs me 50 bucks a month.
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Buck Channel Midget Month Wres
In the ’80s, I was the only game in town, I was the only one getting that kind of exposure in any rotation on MTV.
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Eighty Exposure Game Getting Kind One Only Rotation Town
It’s hard to really articulate what the parameters are that make one song parody-able and another song not, but if I can come up with a good enough idea for it, I go for it, and if not, then I have to move on.
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Articulate Enough Idea Make Movie Parameter Song
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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Extremely Gloat Hate Life Mean Opposition Out Satisfy Thing Work
I don’t like to label myself. I know I’m very hard to pigeonhole.
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Hard Know Label Like Myself Pigeon
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

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