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As a kid, I certainly never thought I would get to spend my life doing something fun.
Al Yankovic
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Al Yankovic
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: October 23
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I like to think that I've gotten better at what I do. I spend more time and pay more attention to detail album after album. But pretty much it's stayed the same.
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I'm always a little leery about doing shows where I'm not the headliner because when I first started playing in 1982 I opened for Missing Persons and got pelted for 45 minutes. After that, I made the decision to headline no matter what, even if I was playing to seven people. I wanted people to be there to see me.
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I was a huge fan of 'Mad' magazine when I was 11, 12, 13 years old. I'd scour used bookstores trying to find back issues, and I'd wait at the newsstand for a new issue to come out. My life revolved around it.
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As my father used to tell me, the only true sign of success in life is being able to do for a living that which makes you happy.
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A lot of my cartoon voices are basically just variations on my natural voice.
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There's a lot of different ways that a song would be a challenge to parody. 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. Some songs are too repetitive for me to be able to fashion a humorous set of lyrics around. Some songs flat-out just don't work creatively for me.
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You can play some schlock like New Kids On the Block.
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I know I'm a million times as humble as thou art!
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I don't like to label myself. I know I'm very hard to pigeonhole.
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I'm known for being an up, high-energy, and optimistic kind of guy.
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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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It was difficult to get into my friends' rock bands when I was a teenager. They somehow didn't see the need for an accordion player. That's when I realized that I had to find my own path in life.
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I can't get too offended when somebody parodies me.
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I'm still a geek on the inside, that's the important thing.
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If money can't buy happiness, then I guess I'll have to rent it.
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In the '80s, I was the only game in town, I was the only one getting that kind of exposure in any rotation on MTV. Now with internet culture it seems like everyone is doing music parodies. And they're not all good!
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I think I'm equally as abusive as the editors normally are for the Letters and Tomatoes column, which is the fan mail part of MAD Magazine and an ongoing feature.
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I've learned how to use my spam filter pretty effectively.
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Not any specific one, but I was a huge fan of Frank Jacobs, I guess he wrote the plurality of the song parodies for MAD, Sam Hart, a few others, but that was also where I was first exposed to the art form of song parodies.
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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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