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Beans, beans, the magic legumes - the more you ingest, the more you consume.
Al Yankovic
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Al Yankovic
Age: 64
Born: 1959
Born: October 23
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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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The irony is of course that my career has lasted a whole lot longer than some of the people I've parodied over the years.
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I can't get too offended when somebody parodies me.
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I have very mixed feelings about it. On one hand, I’m concerned that the rampant downloading of my copyright-protected material over the Internet is severely eating into my album sales and having a decidedly adverse effect on my career. On the other hand, I can get all the Metallica songs I want for FREE! WOW!
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