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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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Al Yankovic
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: October 23
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I can't say enough good things about my band. I feel very fortunate that I found them when I did, very early in my career. Not only are they just great, nice guys they're some of the best musicians you're likely to find. They do everything from gangsta rap to polka music and every genre in between. It's amazing.
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If something is good enough, it can be out there and people will see it.
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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 don't want to pooh-pooh modern pop. I appreciate that as well, but my personal favorite kind of music is guitar-based rock. I like grunge and garage bands and alternative music, but that's more my personal taste.
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The music has always been my bread and butter, and I've focused more of my attention on that.
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If I could find the right kind of property, get tied in with the right movie, I'd love to be involved, but I just find it hard to be motivated to do another screenplay right now.
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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'm very analytical, I'm very precise. I mean, I don't write for kids.
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I make charts of songs that are good candidates, good targets, so to speak. Then I try to come up with ideas for parodies. And 99% of those ideas are horrible.
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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. I think that was the genesis of my polka medleys, because every rock song I played on the accordion just sounded like a polka and my friends thought it was funny. So that was a joke that I continue up to this very day.
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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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I'm watching the charts every week and hoping something will pop into my head.
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I write and write and write, and then I edit it down to the parts that I think are amusing, or that help the storyline, or I'll write a notebook full of ideas of anecdotes or story points, and then I'll try and arrange them in a way that they would tell a semi-cohesive story.
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I'd rather clean all the bathrooms in Grand Central Station with my tongue than spend one more minute with you.
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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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My personal taste doesn't enter into it a lot when I make my decisions as to what to parody.
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I think my chances of ever making it into the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame are about as good as Milli Vanilli’s.
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I mean, I hate to gloat, but I'm extremely satisfied with my position in life and the way things have worked out for me.
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He died a long painful death. However, you'll be happy to hear that just a few years later he was reincarnated as Shirley MacLaine.
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I'll be mellow when I'm dead.
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