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.
AL YANKOVICMy personal taste doesn’t enter into it a lot when I make my decisions as to what to parody.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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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!
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There’s a lot of different ways that a song would be a challenge to parody.
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Beans, beans, the magic legumes – the more you ingest, the more you consume.
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My hobbies just sort of gradually became my vocation.
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I’ve learned how to use my spam filter pretty effectively.
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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.
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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 make charts of songs that are good candidates, good targets, so to speak.
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I like to think that I’ve gotten better at what I do. I spend more time and pay more attention to detail album after album. But pretty much it’s stayed the same.
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Probably 90 percent of my albums have polka medleys.
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My brothers and sisters hated me because I was an only child.
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People say releasing an album is like giving birth, but it’s more like having a gallbladder operation.
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I’m an ugly girl, My face makes you hurl, Sad I have it, I should bag it. Acne everywhere, Unwanted facial hair. I’m a relation to Frankenstein’s creation.
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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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I’m stranded all alone in the gas station of love, and I have to use the self service pump.
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I don’t watch anything on a regular basis – I tend to binge-watch things.
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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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I know I’m a million times as humble as thou art!
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Some people want to advertise their weirdness, and spread it out, that’s not me.
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You make me wanna staple bagels to my face, then remove them with a pitchfork.
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I have a long-standing history of respecting artists’ wishes.
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Whenever I do a parody it’s not meant to make you hate anybody’s music really.
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You slammed my face down on the barbecue grill, now my scars are all healing, but my heart never will.
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I am not making this up. Needless to say, as soon as I discovered that, I gave up meat entirely.
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I don’t really look at myself as the kind of person who craves attention, but I’ve never been to therapy so there’s probably a lot of stuff about myself that I don’t know.
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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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