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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.

Al Yankovic

I knew we were having problems when you put those piranhas in my bathtub again.
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I enjoy all kinds of music. But it is kind of strange when I do parodies, instead of setting up drums and guitar amps.
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One of the hardest things I’ve had to deal with in my career is keeping my material topical even though I only release albums every three or four years.
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There’s a lot of different ways that a song would be a challenge to parody.
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I can’t say enough good things about my band. I feel very fortunate that I found them when I did, very early in my career.
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A lot of artists have really been supportive over the years.
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I decided that I wanted to be a voice on every animated cartoon in the history of the world – even shows that haven’t been on the air for a very long time, that’s going to be harder to pull off.
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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 cut my teeth playing rock songs on the accordion when I was a teenager and my friends always thought that was extremely amusing.
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You still have Top 40 radio now, but it’s 40 different stations. There aren’t many hits that everybody knows, and there aren’t many real superstars.
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That’s something the kids should know about. Reading is a gateway to witchcraft and lesbianism.
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I was able to come up with a couple articles for the magazine, I was able to solicit help from a bunch of my friends to contribute pieces: Patton Oswalt, Seth Green, Emo Phillips, Chris Hardwick, John Hodgman, and more.
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People never ask people doing serious music, ‘Do you ever think about doing funny music?’
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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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A lot of rap songs don’t usually have a lot of melody per se.
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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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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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