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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?

Al Yankovic

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Al Yankovic
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: October 23
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I start with a comprehensive list of all the recent songs that have been big hits - and then I go down that list and see if I can come up with funny ideas for them. I can always come up with ideas, but not necessarily good ones!
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In the '80s, I was the only game in town, I was the only one getting that kind of exposure in any rotation on MTV. Now with internet culture it seems like everyone is doing music parodies. And they're not all good!
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I think my chances of ever making it into the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame are about as good as Milli Vanilli’s.
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Velvet Elvis never puts on weight.
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Midget wrestling on channel 3, it costs me 50 bucks a month.
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You can play some schlock like New Kids On the Block.
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Maybe I'll make a huge color tapestry from my belly button lint.
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I dated Siamese twins, I slept with Big Foot, too. Get me on Sally Jesse, put me on Donahue.
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There's enough people that do unfunny music. I'll leave the serious stuff to Paris Hilton and Kevin Federline.
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No Joni Mitchell 8 track tapes in my car.
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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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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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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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I don't like to label myself. I know I'm very hard to pigeonhole.
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I'm just a no-good, scum sucking, nose picking, boot licking, sniveling, groveling, worthless hunk of slime.
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My hobbies just sort of gradually became my vocation.
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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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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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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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I guess I lost a little bit of self-esteem that time that you made it with the whole hockey team.
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