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You fake something until you're good at it.

Al Yankovic

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Al Yankovic
Age: 64
Born: 1959
Born: October 23
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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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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 known for being an up, high-energy, and optimistic kind of guy.
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As a wise man once said, “April Fools Day is for amateurs. You NEVER need an excuse to mess with people's heads.”
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Kind of wish I was dead. Maybe, I'll blow my brains out, mama, or maybe I'll go bowling.
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I think that nerds, if you want to call them that, have only gotten more hip and assimilated into the culture.
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I'm still a geek on the inside, that's the important thing.
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My hobbies just sort of gradually became my vocation.
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My brothers and sisters hated me because I was an only child.
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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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Take down those naked pictures of Ernest Borgnine.
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One of the hardest things I've had to deal with in my career is keeping my material topical even though I only release albums every three or four years.
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You don't need to be defined by your job.
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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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By the time I'm in the studio recording my parody, 10,000 parodies of that song are on YouTube.
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Many years ago I found out something about hamburgers that really grossed me out. You may not know this, so I hope I don’t make you sick, but it turns out hamburgers are actually made out of dead cows. I am not making this up. Needless to say, as soon as I discovered that, I gave up meat entirely.
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Got a brand new semi-automatic weapon with a laser sight. Oh, I'm praying that somebody tries to break in here tonight.
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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'll be mellow when I'm dead.
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I'm a music fan, and I can listen to the radio, or music, without thinking, How am I going to screw this up? [Laughs] If I'm really actively trying to think of a parody, then I'll have my antenna out, and be a little more proactive about it.
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