Boys like Peter are afraid of alot of things, like nuclear annihilation and flunking algebra, but they’re not afraid of wolves.
AL YANKOVICSo I try not to pick songs that I know would drive me crazy.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
-
-
In the ’80s, I was putting out an album virtually every year, I think mostly based on fear – that if I didn’t, people would soon forget about me.
AL YANKOVIC -
I do original songs in the style of other artists, where I try to learn all their musical idiosyncrasies and try to do something that sounds like them and yet is a bit more sick and twisted.
AL YANKOVIC -
My hobbies just sort of gradually became my vocation.
AL YANKOVIC -
Right now I’m listening to a lot of Top 40 music, because THAT’S MY JOB.
AL YANKOVIC -
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.
AL YANKOVIC -
I tend to enunciate pretty well. It’s always seemed that my voice is one of those voices that people can recognize pretty easily – which has been a bit of a drawback for some characters.
AL YANKOVIC -
Left all my Beatle records out in the sun, got a coke bottle stuck on the end of my tongue.
AL YANKOVIC -
Until you came along I never dated anyone this low on the food chain.
AL YANKOVIC -
Kind of wish I was dead. Maybe, I’ll blow my brains out, mama, or maybe I’ll go bowling.
AL YANKOVIC -
I’m free to do what I please, I’m probably not going to do albums. Just because I think releasing tracks as singles is a better way for me to stay topical.
AL YANKOVIC -
There’s a lot of different ways that a song would be a challenge to parody.
AL YANKOVIC -
I’ve always known that if I recorded an album, it would come out, and people would enjoy it!
AL YANKOVIC -
I think my chances of ever making it into the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame are about as good as Milli Vanilli’s.
AL YANKOVIC -
The music has always been my bread and butter, and I’ve focused more of my attention on that.
AL YANKOVIC -
I love the way they run in fright when I turn on the kitchen light. And when I squish them on the ground, they make a pleasant crunchy sound.
AL YANKOVIC -
There are a lot of songs that would ostensibly be a good candidate for parody, yet I can’t think of a clever enough idea.
AL YANKOVIC -
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 YANKOVIC -
I was a huge fan of ‘Mad’ magazine when I was 11, 12, 13 years old. I’d scour used bookstores trying to find back issues, and I’d wait at the newsstand for a new issue to come out. My life revolved around it.
AL YANKOVIC -
In a genre where most of the artists are one-hit wonders, I’ve been able to hang around longer than most “serious” acts. I pride myself in being a very talented leech.
AL YANKOVIC -
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.
AL YANKOVIC -
I always try to put myself out of my comfort zone and out of my depth, and hopefully somewhere along the line I’ll catch up.
AL YANKOVIC -
When I go to my live shows it’s often a multigenerational audience, a family bonding experience.
AL YANKOVIC -
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.
AL YANKOVIC -
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.
AL YANKOVIC -
I guess I lost a little bit of self-esteem that time that you made it with the whole hockey team.
AL YANKOVIC -
My personal taste doesn’t enter into it a lot when I make my decisions as to what to parody.
AL YANKOVIC