You got me stranded on the bungee tower of love.
AL YANKOVICIf something is good enough, it can be out there and people will see it.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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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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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 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.
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Beans, beans, the magic legumes – the more you ingest, the more you consume.
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I know now that everything I write, I’m going to put out, and I’ll have to live with it for the rest of my life.
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I can’t get too offended when somebody parodies me.
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That’s a big part of my life – doing things that I’m not prepared to do.
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I write and write and write, and then I edit it down to the parts that I think are amusing, or that help the storyline, or I’ll write a notebook full of ideas of anecdotes or story points.
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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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People say releasing an album is like giving birth, but it’s more like having a gallbladder operation.
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Every night for dinner we had a big chunk of dirt.
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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.
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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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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.
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A lot of my cartoon voices are basically just variations on my natural voice.
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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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It doesn’t take a military genius to see we’ll all be crispy critters after World War III.
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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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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’m an ugly girl, My face makes you hurl, Sad I have it, I should bag it. Acne everywhere, Unwanted facial hair. I’m a relation to Frankenstein’s creation.
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Whereas if I wrote a movie script, chances are better than even that I’d just be another guy in L.A. with a movie script in his drawer.
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Right now I’m listening to a lot of Top 40 music, because THAT’S MY JOB.
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One of the hardest things I’ve had to deal with in my career is keeping my material topical even though I only release albums every three or four years.
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I think my chances of ever making it into the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame are about as good as Milli Vanilli’s.
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Well I’ve made no secret of my life long love of MAD Magazine, it’s probably my first and greatest influence in terms of my comic sensibilities. I’ve known John [Ficarra] for many years, and we’ve been friends.
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Now with internet culture it seems like everyone is doing music parodies. And they’re not all good!
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