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People never ask people doing serious music, 'Do you ever think about doing funny music?'

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Al Yankovic
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: October 23
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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 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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There aren't that many superstars around anymore.
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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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I don't want to pooh-pooh modern pop. I appreciate that as well, but my personal favorite kind of music is guitar-based rock. I like grunge and garage bands and alternative music, but that's more my personal taste.
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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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Probably 90 percent of my albums have polka medleys.
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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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By the time I'm in the studio recording my parody, 10,000 parodies of that song are on YouTube.
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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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I'm very analytical, I'm very precise. I mean, I don't write for kids.
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A lot of rap songs don't usually have a lot of melody per se.
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You still have Top 40 radio now, but it's 40 different stations. There aren't many hits that everybody knows, and there aren't many real superstars.
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Beans, beans, the magic legumes - the more you ingest, the more you consume.
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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'm stranded all alone in the gas station of love, and I have to use the self service pump.
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I'm obviously not a rapper, and I don't have any claims to be one, really.
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Maybe I'll make a huge color tapestry from my belly button lint.
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When I go to my live shows it's often a multigenerational audience, a family bonding experience.
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