Pop culture’s gotten much more disposable.
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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It becomes more important to me as time goes on to make every album the best thing I’ve ever done, so it’s a lot of self-imposed pressure that also kind of slows me down a bit.
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I’m obviously not a rapper, and I don’t have any claims to be one, really.
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People say releasing an album is like giving birth, but it’s more like having a gallbladder operation.
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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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You still have Top 40 radio now, but it’s 40 different stations. There aren’t many hits that everybody knows, and there aren’t many real superstars.
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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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I can’t get too offended when somebody parodies me.
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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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You fake something until you’re good at it.
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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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That’s a big part of my life – doing things that I’m not prepared to do.
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Some people want to advertise their weirdness, and spread it out, that’s not me.
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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 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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I don’t watch a lot of other people’s parodies because I don’t want to be unduly influenced.
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