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I have a long-standing history of respecting artists' wishes.

Al Yankovic

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Al Yankovic
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: October 23
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Probably 90 percent of my albums have polka medleys.
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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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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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I don't really look at myself as the kind of person who craves attention, but I've never been to therapy so there's probably a lot of stuff about myself that I don't know.
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I don't like to label myself. I know I'm very hard to pigeonhole.
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One of my pet peeves is that sometimes the talents of my band get overlooked because, and it was the same problem that Frank Zappa had, with a lot of groups that use humor, people don't realize there's a lot of craft behind the comedy.
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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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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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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 was a kid, I thought I was going to be an architect, because when I was 12 years old I had a guidance counselor that convinced me that that was the best career choice for me.
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I'm stranded all alone in the gas station of love, and I have to use the self service pump.
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Some people want to advertise their weirdness, and spread it out, that's not me.
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Maybe I'll make a huge color tapestry from my belly button lint.
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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 because you're supposed to lose yourself in the character, but sometimes people look at a character and go Oh, it's 'Weird Al.'
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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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You got me stranded on the bungee tower of love.
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There are probably a few library fines I haven't paid yet, but I'm a pretty clean-cut guy overall.
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It's hard to really articulate what the parameters are that make one song parody-able and another song not, but if I can come up with a good enough idea for it, I go for it, and if not, then I have to move on.
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Nows the time to go for all the gusto you can grab. You'll have plenty of time to be low-key when you're laid out on the slab.
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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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