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People that were a little nerdy in high school would look up to me and know it gets better.

Al Yankovic

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
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
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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Accordion Amuse Cut Extreme Paly Rock Song Teenage
So I try not to pick songs that I know would drive me crazy.
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Crazy Drive Know Pick Song Try
If money can’t buy happiness, then I guess I’ll have to rent it.
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Buy Happiness Guess Money Rent Sassy
When I go to my live shows it’s often a multigenerational audience, a family bonding experience.
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Experience Family Bond Live Show
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
Midget wrestling on channel 3, it costs me 50 bucks a month.
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Buck Channel Midget Month Wres
A lot of artists have really been supportive over the years.
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Artist Supportive Year
A lot of rap songs don’t usually have a lot of melody per se.
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Melody Rap Song Usually
Every night for dinner we had a big chunk of dirt.
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Big Chunk Dinner Dirt Every Night Reality
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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Automatic Brand Laser Play Revenge Semi Sight Tonight Try
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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Band Comedy One Overlook Peeve Pet Problem Realize Same Sometimes Talent
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
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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Around Artist Genre Hang Longer Most Serious Talent Wonder
Didn’t have Nintendo, we just poured salt on snails.
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Honesty Nintendo Pour Salt Snail

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