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I can't get too offended when somebody parodies me.

Al Yankovic

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Al Yankovic
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: October 23
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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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So that's why one of my rules of parody writing is that it's gotta be funny regardless of whether you know the source material. It has to work on its own merit.
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Sometimes I get, Have you ever thought about doing real music? I like to think the music I do is real, it just happens to be funny.
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Left all my Beatle records out in the sun, got a coke bottle stuck on the end of my tongue.
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In fact, when I come up with an idea for a parody I try to resist the urge to Google the idea to see if someone has done it already because the answer is almost always, Yes, of course they have, they've thought of it!
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I have a long-standing history of respecting artists' wishes.
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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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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 watching the charts every week and hoping something will pop into my head.
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I try not to go the obvious route all the time, but sometimes the most obvious is actually the best.
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You make me wanna staple bagels to my face, then remove them with a pitchfork.
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Boys like Peter are afraid of alot of things, like nuclear annihilation and flunking algebra, but they're not afraid of wolves.
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I know now that everything I write, I'm going to put out, and I'll have to live with it for the rest of my life.
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I guess I lost a little bit of self-esteem that time that you made it with the whole hockey team.
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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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Whenever I do a parody it's not meant to make you hate anybody's music really.
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My velvet Elvis means the world to me. Although he may not be worth much dough, he means more to me than some old Rembrandt or Van Gogh.
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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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Midget wrestling on channel 3, it costs me 50 bucks a month.
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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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