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Al Yankovic

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Al Yankovic
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: October 23
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Sometimes I get, Have you ever thought about doing real music? I like to think the music I do is real, it just happens to be funny.
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People that were a little nerdy in high school would look up to me and know it gets better.
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I'm watching the charts every week and hoping something will pop into my head.
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I'm very analytical, I'm very precise. I mean, I don't write for kids.
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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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Not any specific one, but I was a huge fan of Frank Jacobs, I guess he wrote the plurality of the song parodies for MAD, Sam Hart, a few others, but that was also where I was first exposed to the art form of song parodies.
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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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I don't like to label myself. I know I'm very hard to pigeonhole.
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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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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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When I started out, I didn't feel like I was really accepted in the music or comedy communities, and I was somewhere on the edge, but now I feel like I'm accepted in both, which is extremely gratifying.
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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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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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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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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 decided that I wanted to be a voice on every animated cartoon in the history of the world - even shows that haven't been on the air for a very long time, that's going to be harder to pull off.
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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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At this point I've got a bit of a track record. So people realize that when 'Weird Al' wants to go parody, it's not meant to make them look bad... it's meant to be a tribute.
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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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I'm very analytical, I'm very precise.
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