I don’t watch a lot of other people’s parodies because I don’t want to be unduly influenced.
AL YANKOVICI don’t watch a lot of other people’s parodies because I don’t want to be unduly influenced.
AL YANKOVICThe 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 YANKOVICHe put Ben Gay inside my jock strap and filled my tooth paste tube up with glue.
AL YANKOVICTake down those naked pictures of Ernest Borgnine.
AL YANKOVICBuy our album, were Nirvana, a garage band from Seattle. Well, it sure beats raising cattle.
AL YANKOVICI like the guitar-driven music of Nirvana at its peak. At that point, I thought there was a lot of really exciting music coming out.
AL YANKOVICNo Joni Mitchell 8 track tapes in my car.
AL YANKOVICAs much as people are griping about the Internet taking sales away from artists, it’s been a huge promotional tool for me.
AL YANKOVICAs 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.
AL YANKOVICThe window doesn’t open, the fan is broke, and my face is turning blue. I haven’t been in a crowd like this since I went to see the Who.
AL YANKOVICYou still have Top 40 radio now, but it’s 40 different stations. There aren’t many hits that everybody knows, and there aren’t many real superstars.
AL YANKOVICI 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 YANKOVICI’m still a geek on the inside, that’s the important thing.
AL YANKOVICThere aren’t that many superstars around anymore.
AL YANKOVICNot any specific one, but I was a huge fan of Frank Jacobs, I guess he wrote the plurality of the song parodies for MAD, Sam Hart, a few others, but that was also where I was first exposed to the art form of song parodies.
AL YANKOVICWhen 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.
AL YANKOVIC