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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.

Al Yankovic

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Al Yankovic
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: October 23
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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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I've learned how to use my spam filter pretty effectively.
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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 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 it turns out, there is a thing called the Internet, and stuff does go out there whether the suits like it or not.
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In a genre where most of the artists are one-hit wonders, I've been able to hang around longer than most serious acts. I pride myself in being a very talented leech.
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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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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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Kind of wish I was dead. Maybe, I'll blow my brains out, mama, or maybe I'll go bowling.
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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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I was a huge fan of 'Mad' magazine when I was 11, 12, 13 years old. I'd scour used bookstores trying to find back issues, and I'd wait at the newsstand for a new issue to come out. My life revolved around it.
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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 velvet Elvis means the world to me. Although he may not be worth much dough, he means more to me than some old Rembrandt or Van Gogh.
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As a wise man once said, “April Fools Day is for amateurs. You NEVER need an excuse to mess with people's heads.”
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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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The window doesn't open, the fan is broke, and my face is turning blue. I haven't been in a crowd like this since I went to see the Who.
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You fake something until you're good at it.
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I've always enjoyed animation and voiceover work. That's something that I've been proactive about.
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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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So I'm one of the few celebrities that got to do a repeat performance on 'The Simpsons,' which I'm very flattered by.
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