They somehow didn’t see the need for an accordion player. That’s when I realized that I had to find my own path in life.
AL YANKOVICGot a brand new semi-automatic weapon with a laser sight. Oh, I’m praying that somebody tries to break in here tonight.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
-
-
As much as people are griping about the Internet taking sales away from artists, it’s been a huge promotional tool for me.
AL YANKOVIC -
I’m obviously not a rapper, and I don’t have any claims to be one, really.
AL YANKOVIC -
Pop culture’s gotten much more disposable.
AL YANKOVIC -
I don’t want to hear about this train being derailed! What happened to ‘The Flintstones’?’
AL YANKOVIC -
I was able to come up with a couple articles for the magazine, I was able to solicit help from a bunch of my friends to contribute pieces: Patton Oswalt, Seth Green, Emo Phillips, Chris Hardwick, John Hodgman, and more.
AL YANKOVIC -
I think I’m equally as abusive as the editors normally are for the “Letters and Tomatoes” column, which is the fan mail part of MAD Magazine and an ongoing feature.
AL YANKOVIC -
I don’t want to pooh-pooh modern pop. I appreciate that as well, but my personal favorite kind of music is guitar-based rock. I like grunge and garage bands and alternative music, but that’s more my personal taste.
AL YANKOVIC -
It’s hard to really articulate what the parameters are that make one song parody-able and another song not, but if I can come up with a good enough idea for it, I go for it, and if not, then I have to move on.
AL YANKOVIC -
I don’t think there are any new media I’d like to cover.
AL YANKOVIC -
I cut my teeth playing rock songs on the accordion when I was a teenager and my friends always thought that was extremely amusing.
AL YANKOVIC -
You fake something until you’re good at it.
AL YANKOVIC -
Got a brand new semi-automatic weapon with a laser sight. Oh, I’m praying that somebody tries to break in here tonight.
AL YANKOVIC -
You slammed my face down on the barbecue grill, now my scars are all healing, but my heart never will.
AL YANKOVIC -
I do a lot of different things, sometimes at the same time, and it’s very difficult to figure out where I fit.
AL YANKOVIC -
I have very mixed feelings about it. On one hand, I’m concerned that the rampant downloading of my copyright-protected material over the Internet is severely eating into my album sales and having a decidedly adverse effect on my career.
AL YANKOVIC






