What kind of morons do you have working at newspapers in Austin that would base an entire review of an artist’s performance on whether or not they had a good seat?
AL YANKOVICIt’s hard to force creativity and humor.
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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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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If I could find the right kind of property, get tied in with the right movie, I’d love to be involved, but I just find it hard to be motivated to do another screenplay right now.
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I’ve learned how to use my spam filter pretty effectively.
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Whereas if I wrote a movie script, chances are better than even that I’d just be another guy in L.A. with a movie script in his drawer.
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Beans, beans, the magic legumes – the more you ingest, the more you consume.
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He put Ben Gay inside my jock strap and filled my tooth paste tube up with glue.
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So then why get upset if somebody like me Tries to look at the world just a bit differently?
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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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It’s very much a “Weird Al” themed issue, so I’d like to think that there’s a lot of “Weird Al” flavor throughout but I think it’d be generous really to call me an editor.
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A lot of rap songs don’t usually have a lot of melody per se.
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I did have a child, and I was reading a lot of picture books to her, but at the same time writing a children’s book was something that I’d been wanting to do for many years, pretty much since the start of my career.
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About four or five months ago, at a dinner in New York, John made the very nice offer of my being guest editor for an issue of MAD and I thought about it for about half a nanosecond and decided that was a pretty good idea.
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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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You can play some schlock like New Kids On the Block.
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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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Not only are they just great, nice guys; they’re some of the best musicians you’re likely to find.
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I don’t want to hear about this train being derailed! What happened to ‘The Flintstones’?’
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Didn’t have Nintendo, we just poured salt on snails.
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You fake something until you’re good at it.
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I make charts of songs that are good candidates, good targets, so to speak.
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Take down those naked pictures of Ernest Borgnine.
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Doing things that I don’t know how to do, and keep doing them until I get good at them.
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Some people want to advertise their weirdness, and spread it out, that’s not me.
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It was difficult to get into my friends’ rock bands when I was a teenager.
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Every night for dinner we had a big chunk of dirt.
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