I’m obviously not a rapper, and I don’t have any claims to be one, really.
AL YANKOVICHow can you get bored if the audience is cheering and laughing at something you’re doing?
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Well I’ve made no secret of my life long love of MAD Magazine, it’s probably my first and greatest influence in terms of my comic sensibilities. I’ve known John [Ficarra] for many years, and we’ve been friends.
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My brothers and sisters hated me because I was an only child.
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I’m very analytical, I’m very precise.
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Whenever I do a parody it’s not meant to make you hate anybody’s music really.
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My hobbies just sort of gradually became my vocation.
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Many years ago I found out something about hamburgers that really grossed me out. You may not know this, so I hope I don’t make you sick, but it turns out hamburgers are actually made out of dead cows.
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How 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 do original songs in the style of other artists, where I try to learn all their musical idiosyncrasies and try to do something that sounds like them and yet is a bit more sick and twisted.
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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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People never ask people doing serious music, ‘Do you ever think about doing funny music?’
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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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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’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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Didn’t have Nintendo, we just poured salt on snails.
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