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I'm very analytical, I'm very precise.
Al Yankovic
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Al Yankovic
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: October 23
Actor
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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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People say releasing an album is like giving birth, but it’s more like having a gallbladder operation.
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What kind of morons do you have working at newspapers in Austin that would base an entire review of an artist's performance on whether or not they had a good seat?
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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 knew we were having problems when you put those piranhas in my bathtub again.
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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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Pop culture's gotten much more disposable.
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As much as people are griping about the Internet taking sales away from artists, it's been a huge promotional tool for me.
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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'll bet every great thinker and leader we've got Could see all kinds of things other people could not! So then why get upset if somebody like me Tries to look at the world just a bit differently?
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Ever since the day you left me, I've been so miserable, my dear. I feel almost as bad as I did when you were still here.
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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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I don't watch anything on a regular basis - I tend to binge-watch things.
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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 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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I like the guitar-driven music of Nirvana at its peak. At that point, I thought there was a lot of really exciting music coming out.
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Some people want to advertise their weirdness, and spread it out, that's not me.
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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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Right now I'm listening to a lot of Top 40 music, because THAT'S MY JOB.
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