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.
AL YANKOVICPeople that were a little nerdy in high school would look up to me and know it gets better.
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Doing things that I don’t know how to do, and keep doing them until I get good at them.
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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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So I try not to pick songs that I know would drive me crazy.
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If money can’t buy happiness, then I guess I’ll have to rent it.
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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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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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Midget wrestling on channel 3, it costs me 50 bucks a month.
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A lot of artists have really been supportive over the years.
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A lot of rap songs don’t usually have a lot of melody per se.
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Every night for dinner we had a big chunk of dirt.
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Got a brand new semi-automatic weapon with a laser sight. Oh, I’m praying that somebody tries to break in here tonight.
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One of my pet peeves is that sometimes the talents of my band get overlooked because, and it was the same problem that Frank Zappa had, with a lot of groups that use humor, people don’t realize there’s a lot of craft behind the comedy.
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I don’t like to label myself. I know I’m very hard to pigeonhole.
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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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Didn’t have Nintendo, we just poured salt on snails.
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