My personal taste doesn’t enter into it a lot when I make my decisions as to what to parody.
AL YANKOVICYou can try on our suede underwear if you choose. Do what you want, but don’t step on my blue suede shoes.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
-
-
When I go to my live shows it’s often a multigenerational audience, a family bonding experience.
AL YANKOVIC -
Buy our album, were Nirvana, a garage band from Seattle. Well, it sure beats raising cattle.
AL YANKOVIC -
You 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 YANKOVIC -
People say releasing an album is like giving birth, but it’s more like having a gallbladder operation.
AL YANKOVIC -
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.
AL YANKOVIC -
That’s a big part of my life – doing things that I’m not prepared to do.
AL YANKOVIC -
I’m very analytical, I’m very precise.
AL YANKOVIC -
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.
AL YANKOVIC -
I think my chances of ever making it into the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame are about as good as Milli Vanilli’s.
AL YANKOVIC -
Until you came along I never dated anyone this low on the food chain.
AL YANKOVIC -
I try not to go the obvious route all the time, but sometimes the most obvious is actually the best.
AL YANKOVIC -
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.
AL YANKOVIC -
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.
AL YANKOVIC -
I think that nerds, if you want to call them that, have only gotten more hip and assimilated into the culture.
AL YANKOVIC -
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.
AL YANKOVIC






