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My hobbies just sort of gradually became my vocation.
Al Yankovic
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Al Yankovic
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: October 23
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California
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That's something the kids should know about. Reading is a gateway to witchcraft and lesbianism.
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My wife went off with Elvis.
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I love the way they run in fright when I turn on the kitchen light. And when I squish them on the ground, they make a pleasant crunchy sound.
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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'll be mellow when I'm dead.
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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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How can you get bored if the audience is cheering and laughing at something you're doing?
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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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A lot of rap songs don't usually have a lot of melody per se.
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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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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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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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By the time I'm in the studio recording my parody, 10,000 parodies of that song are on YouTube.
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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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You fake something until you're good at it.
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Take down those naked pictures of Ernest Borgnine.
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I do original songs in the style of other artists, where I try to learn all their musical idiosyncrasies and try to do something that sounds like them and yet is a bit more sick and twisted.
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