I can’t get too offended when somebody parodies me.
AL YANKOVICMy process for the parodies is that I get an idea for a song and then get approval from the artist and then go in and record it and probably try to get it out as soon as possible.
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I know now that everything I write, I’m going to put out, and I’ll have to live with it for the rest of my life.
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It’s hard to say, I picked one of my favorite articles for the MAD vault. Which is one of the features of the Magazine so they don’t have to actually pay artists or writers to come up with new stuff.
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I think that nerds, if you want to call them that, have only gotten more hip and assimilated into the culture.
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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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Right now I’m listening to a lot of Top 40 music, because THAT’S MY JOB.
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I’m known for being an up, high-energy, and optimistic kind of guy.
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That’s a big part of my life – doing things that I’m not prepared to do.
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And then I’ll try and arrange them in a way that they would tell a semi-cohesive story.
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I try to pick songs that I actually like because I realize that I have to live with these songs for a long time, from when I’m working on them in the studio to possibly playing them onstage for the rest of my life.
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I try not to go the obvious route all the time, but sometimes the most obvious is actually the best.
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That’s something the kids should know about. Reading is a gateway to witchcraft and lesbianism.
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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.
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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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You got me stranded on the bungee tower of love.
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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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After that, I made the decision to headline no matter what, even if I was playing to seven people. I wanted people to be there to see me.
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I’m stranded all alone in the gas station of love, and I have to use the self service pump.
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My brothers and sisters hated me because I was an only child.
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Beans, beans, the magic legumes – the more you ingest, the more you consume.
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I don’t think there are any new media I’d like to cover.
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When I swore that you’re getting more and more beautiful everyday. Well, I was only kidding, honey.
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I’m always a little leery about doing shows where I’m not the headliner because when I first started playing in 1982 I opened for Missing Persons and got pelted for 45 minutes.
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I was able to come up with a couple articles for the magazine, I was able to solicit help from a bunch of my friends to contribute pieces: Patton Oswalt, Seth Green, Emo Phillips, Chris Hardwick, John Hodgman, and more.
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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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Many years ago I found out something about hamburgers that really grossed me out. You may not know this, so I hope I don’t make you sick, but it turns out hamburgers are actually made out of dead cows.
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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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