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People never ask people doing serious music, 'Do you ever think about doing funny music?'
Al Yankovic
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Al Yankovic
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: October 23
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California
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I was abducted by some aliens from space who kind a looked like Jamie Farr.
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I've always known that if I recorded an album, it would come out, and people would enjoy it! Whereas if I wrote a movie script, chances are better than even that I'd just be another guy in L.A. with a movie script in his drawer.
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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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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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You make me wanna staple bagels to my face, then remove them with a pitchfork.
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No Joni Mitchell 8 track tapes in my car.
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My personal taste doesn't enter into it a lot when I make my decisions as to what to parody.
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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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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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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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