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Buy our album, were Nirvana, a garage band from Seattle. Well, it sure beats raising cattle.
Al Yankovic
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Al Yankovic
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: October 23
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When I was a kid, I thought I was going to be an architect, because when I was 12 years old I had a guidance counselor that convinced me that that was the best career choice for me.
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Some people want to advertise their weirdness, and spread it out, that's not me.
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Probably 90 percent of my albums have polka medleys.
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Didn't have Nintendo, we just poured salt on snails.
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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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So that's why one of my rules of parody writing is that it's gotta be funny regardless of whether you know the source material. It has to work on its own merit.
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I can't get too offended when somebody parodies me.
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My wife went off with Elvis.
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You can play some schlock like New Kids On the Block.
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People never ask people doing serious music, 'Do you ever think about doing funny music?'
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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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Until you came along I never dated anyone this low on the food chain.
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I'm always a little leery about doing shows where I'm not the headliner because when I first started playing in 1982 I opened for Missing Persons and got pelted for 45 minutes. After that, I made the decision to headline no matter what, even if I was playing to seven people. I wanted people to be there to see me.
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That's something the kids should know about. Reading is a gateway to witchcraft and lesbianism.
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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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Nows the time to go for all the gusto you can grab. You'll have plenty of time to be low-key when you're laid out on the slab.
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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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It was difficult to get into my friends' rock bands when I was a teenager. They somehow didn't see the need for an accordion player. That's when I realized that I had to find my own path in life.
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I suppose I had my rock star fantasies while I was singing into my hairbrush in the bathroom mirror, but I never really consciously said, 'OK, this is what I'm going to do for a living and I'm going to be Weird Al.'
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I'm free to do what I please, I'm probably not going to do albums. Just because I think releasing tracks as singles is a better way for me to stay topical.
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