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.
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More Al Yankovic Quotes
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I’m watching the charts every week and hoping something will pop into my head.
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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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Pop culture’s gotten much more disposable.
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It doesn’t take a military genius to see we’ll all be crispy critters after World War III.
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I’ll be mellow when I’m dead.
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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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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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When I started out, I didn’t feel like I was really accepted in the music or comedy communities, and I was somewhere on the edge, but now I feel like I’m accepted in both, which is extremely gratifying.
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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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You slammed my face down on the barbecue grill, now my scars are all healing, but my heart never will.
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When I go to my live shows it’s often a multigenerational audience, a family bonding experience.
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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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As my father used to tell me, the only true sign of success in life is being able to do for a living that which makes you happy.
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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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I’d rather clean all the bathrooms in Grand Central Station with my tongue than spend one more minute with you.
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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.
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I suppose I had my rock star fantasies while I was singing into my hairbrush in the bathroom mirror, but I never really consciously said, ‘OK, this is what I’m going to do for a living and I’m going to be Weird Al.’
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I knew we were having problems when you put those piranhas in my bathtub again.
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If money can’t buy happiness, then I guess I’ll have to rent 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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Nows the time to go for all the gusto you can grab. You’ll have plenty of time to be low-key when you’re laid out on the slab.
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Because you’re supposed to lose yourself in the character, but sometimes people look at a character and go “Oh, it’s ‘Weird Al.'”
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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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People that were a little nerdy in high school would look up to me and know it gets better.
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When I was a kid, I thought I was going to be an architect, because when I was 12 years old I had a guidance counselor that convinced me that that was the best career choice for me.
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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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