There are a lot of songs that would ostensibly be a good candidate for parody, yet I can’t think of a clever enough idea.
AL YANKOVICThe music has always been my bread and butter, and I’ve focused more of my attention on that.
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I can bend paper clips into the shapes of small animals.
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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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If money can’t buy happiness, then I guess I’ll have to rent it.
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Then I try to come up with ideas for parodies. And 99% of those ideas are horrible.
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I do a lot of different things, sometimes at the same time, and it’s very difficult to figure out where I fit.
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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.
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Midget wrestling on channel 3, it costs me 50 bucks a month.
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Some people want to advertise their weirdness, and spread it out, that’s not me.
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Probably 90 percent of my albums have polka medleys.
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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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I like the guitar-driven music of Nirvana at its peak. At that point, I thought there was a lot of really exciting music coming out.
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I’ve always enjoyed animation and voiceover work. That’s something that I’ve been proactive about.
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My brothers and sisters hated me because I was an only child.
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So I try not to pick songs that I know would drive me crazy.
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As a kid, I certainly never thought I would get to spend my life doing something fun.
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