Then I try to come up with ideas for parodies. And 99% of those ideas are horrible.
AL YANKOVICI 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.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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I’m still a geek on the inside, that’s the important thing.
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Pop culture’s gotten much more disposable.
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Didn’t have Nintendo, we just poured salt on snails.
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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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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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My wife went off with Elvis.
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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.
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I’m just a no-good, scum sucking, nose picking, boot licking, sniveling, groveling, worthless hunk of slime.
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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.
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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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I don’t watch anything on a regular basis – I tend to binge-watch things.
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Some people want to advertise their weirdness, and spread it out, that’s not me.
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My brothers and sisters hated me because I was an only child.
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Left all my Beatle records out in the sun, got a coke bottle stuck on the end of my tongue.
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I make charts of songs that are good candidates, good targets, so to speak.
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