Kind of wish I was dead. Maybe, I’ll blow my brains out, mama, or maybe I’ll go bowling.
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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Probably 90 percent of my albums have polka medleys.
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You got me stranded on the bungee tower of love.
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I think that nerds, if you want to call them that, have only gotten more hip and assimilated into the culture.
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Like, I have had moments, which I think most people have, where you’ll be watching TV, and it’ll be interrupted by some tragic event, and you’ll actually find yourself thinking,
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I always try to put myself out of my comfort zone and out of my depth, and hopefully somewhere along the line I’ll catch up.
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People that were a little nerdy in high school would look up to me and know it gets better.
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When I go to my live shows it’s often a multigenerational audience, a family bonding experience.
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I’m watching the charts every week and hoping something will pop into my head.
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It was difficult to get into my friends’ rock bands when I was a teenager.
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My personal taste doesn’t enter into it a lot when I make my decisions as to what to parody.
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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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I enjoy all kinds of music. But it is kind of strange when I do parodies, instead of setting up drums and guitar amps.
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If money can’t buy happiness, then I guess I’ll have to rent it.
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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’m a music fan, and I can listen to the radio, or music, without thinking, “How am I going to screw this up?” [Laughs] If I’m really actively trying to think of a parody, then I’ll have my antenna out, and be a little more proactive about it.
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