Left all my Beatle records out in the sun, got a coke bottle stuck on the end of my tongue.
AL YANKOVICThere are a lot of songs that would ostensibly be a good candidate for parody, yet I can’t think of a clever enough idea.
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By the time I’m in the studio recording my parody, 10,000 parodies of that song are on YouTube.
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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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It fit pretty nicely into my schedule because we’d pretty much finished the bulk of promotion for Mandatory Fun and were just getting geared up for the World Tour so this was a nice time for me to be working on it.
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I’m very analytical, I’m very precise.
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On the other hand, I can get all the Metallica songs I want for FREE! WOW!
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When I was a kid, I thought I was going to be an architect, because when I was 12 years old I had a guidance counselor that convinced me that that was the best career choice for me.
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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’ve learned how to use my spam filter pretty effectively.
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I have a long-standing history of respecting artists’ wishes.
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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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It was difficult to get into my friends’ rock bands when I was a teenager.
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I don’t want to hear about this train being derailed! What happened to ‘The Flintstones’?’
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In the ’80s, I was putting out an album virtually every year, I think mostly based on fear – that if I didn’t, people would soon forget about me.
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I’m just a no-good, scum sucking, nose picking, boot licking, sniveling, groveling, worthless hunk of slime.
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Nows the time to go for all the gusto you can grab. You’ll have plenty of time to be low-key when you’re laid out on the slab.
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