I don’t watch a lot of other people’s parodies because I don’t want to be unduly influenced.
AL YANKOVICHow can you get bored if the audience is cheering and laughing at something you’re doing?
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I am not making this up. Needless to say, as soon as I discovered that, I gave up meat entirely.
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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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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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Boys like Peter are afraid of alot of things, like nuclear annihilation and flunking algebra, but they’re not afraid of wolves.
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The music has always been my bread and butter, and I’ve focused more of my attention on that.
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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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Probably 90 percent of my albums have polka medleys.
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There’s a lot of different ways that a song would be a challenge to parody.
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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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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 fake something until you’re good at it.
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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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I’ve always known that if I recorded an album, it would come out, and people would enjoy it!
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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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So that was a joke that I continue up to this very day.
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