On the other hand, I can get all the Metallica songs I want for FREE! WOW!
AL YANKOVICI’d like to be able to be more topical and timely and more of-the-moment and I think the way to do that is, instead of waiting until I have twelve songs to release all at once, just to release them as I come up with them.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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There aren’t that many superstars around anymore.
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Boys like Peter are afraid of alot of things, like nuclear annihilation and flunking algebra, but they’re not afraid of wolves.
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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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My 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 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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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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You don’t need to be defined by your job.
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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 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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There’s enough people that do unfunny music. I’ll leave the serious stuff to Paris Hilton and Kevin Federline.
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I know I’m a million times as humble as thou art!
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I’m obviously not a rapper, and I don’t have any claims to be one, really.
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Sometimes I get, “Have you ever thought about doing real music?” I like to think the music I do is real, it just happens to be funny.
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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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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.
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I’d like to be able to be more topical and timely and more of-the-moment and I think the way to do that is, instead of waiting until I have twelve songs to release all at once, just to release them as I come up with them.
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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.
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In fact, when I come up with an idea for a parody I try to resist the urge to Google the idea to see if someone has done it already because the answer is almost always, “Yes, of course they have, they’ve thought of it!”
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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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I knew we were having problems when you put those piranhas in my bathtub again.
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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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Maybe I’ll make a huge color tapestry from my belly button lint.
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There’s a lot of different ways that a song would be a challenge to parody.
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Pop culture’s gotten much more disposable.
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I’m very analytical, I’m very precise. I mean, I don’t write for kids.
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I decided that I wanted to be a voice on every animated cartoon in the history of the world – even shows that haven’t been on the air for a very long time, that’s going to be harder to pull off.
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