If money can’t buy happiness, then I guess I’ll have to rent it.
AL YANKOVICNot only are they just great, nice guys; they’re some of the best musicians you’re likely to find.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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Then I try to come up with ideas for parodies. And 99% of those ideas are horrible.
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Not 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.
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I don’t watch a lot of other people’s parodies because I don’t want to be unduly influenced.
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As a kid, I certainly never thought I would get to spend my life doing something fun.
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I suppose I had my rock star fantasies while I was singing into my hairbrush in the bathroom mirror, but I never really consciously said, ‘OK, this is what I’m going to do for a living and I’m going to be Weird Al.’
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I dated Siamese twins, I slept with Big Foot, too. Get me on Sally Jesse, put me on Donahue.
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My wife went off with Elvis.
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And then I’ll try and arrange them in a way that they would tell a semi-cohesive story.
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I can’t say enough good things about my band. I feel very fortunate that I found them when I did, very early in my career.
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I’ve always known that if I recorded an album, it would come out, and people would enjoy it!
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I’m stranded all alone in the gas station of love, and I have to use the self service pump.
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People never ask people doing serious music, ‘Do you ever think about doing funny music?’
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I can’t get too offended when somebody parodies me.
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There aren’t that many superstars around anymore.
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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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