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You can play some schlock like New Kids On the Block.
Al Yankovic
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Al Yankovic
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: October 23
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I'd like to be able to be more topical and timely and more of-the-moment and I think the way to do that is, instead of waiting until I have twelve songs to release all at once, just to release them as I come up with them.
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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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My brothers and sisters hated me because I was an only child.
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I'd rather clean all the bathrooms in Grand Central Station with my tongue than spend one more minute with you.
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I did have a child, and I was reading a lot of picture books to her, but at the same time writing a children's book was something that I'd been wanting to do for many years, pretty much since the start of my career.
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I don't watch a lot of other people's parodies because I don't want to be unduly influenced.
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I know I'm a million times as humble as thou art!
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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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As much as people are griping about the Internet taking sales away from artists, it's been a huge promotional tool for me.
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Every night for dinner we had a big chunk of dirt.
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Right now I'm listening to a lot of Top 40 music, because THAT'S MY JOB.
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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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One of my pet peeves is that sometimes the talents of my band get overlooked because, and it was the same problem that Frank Zappa had, with a lot of groups that use humor, people don't realize there's a lot of craft behind the comedy.
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You can try on our suede underwear if you choose. Do what you want, but don't step on my blue suede shoes.
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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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Ever since the day you left me, I've been so miserable, my dear. I feel almost as bad as I did when you were still here.
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I do a lot of different things, sometimes at the same time, and it's very difficult to figure out where I fit.
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Buy our album, were Nirvana, a garage band from Seattle. Well, it sure beats raising cattle.
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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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There's a lot of different ways that a song would be a challenge to parody. There are a lot of songs that would ostensibly be a good candidate for parody, yet I can't think of a clever enough idea. Some songs are too repetitive for me to be able to fashion a humorous set of lyrics around. Some songs flat-out just don't work creatively for me.
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