I tend to enunciate pretty well. It’s always seemed that my voice is one of those voices that people can recognize pretty easily – which has been a bit of a drawback for some characters.
AL YANKOVICWhat 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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When I go to my live shows it’s often a multigenerational audience, a family bonding experience.
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As my father used to tell me, the only true sign of success in life is being able to do for a living that which makes you happy.
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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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People never ask people doing serious music, ‘Do you ever think about doing funny music?’
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I try to pick songs that I actually like because I realize that I have to live with these songs for a long time, from when I’m working on them in the studio to possibly playing them onstage for the rest of my life.
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I’ve learned how to use my spam filter pretty effectively.
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Probably 90 percent of my albums have polka medleys.
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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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I try not to go the obvious route all the time, but sometimes the most obvious is actually the best.
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Whereas if I wrote a movie script, chances are better than even that I’d just be another guy in L.A. with a movie script in his drawer.
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It doesn’t take a military genius to see we’ll all be crispy critters after World War III.
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Ever since the day you left me, I’ve been so miserable, my dear. I feel almost as bad as I did when you were still here.
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I’d like to be able to be more topical and timely and more of-the-moment and I think the way to do that is, instead of waiting until I have twelve songs to release all at once, just to release them as I come up with them.
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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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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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