I’m watching the charts every week and hoping something will pop into my head.
AL YANKOVICPeople that were a little nerdy in high school would look up to me and know it gets better.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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I start with a comprehensive list of all the recent songs that have been big hits – and then I go down that list and see if I can come up with funny ideas for them. I can always come up with ideas, but not necessarily good ones!
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It fit pretty nicely into my schedule because we’d pretty much finished the bulk of promotion for Mandatory Fun and were just getting geared up for the World Tour so this was a nice time for me to be working on it.
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Pop culture’s gotten much more disposable.
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Every night for dinner we had a big chunk of dirt.
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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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You slammed my face down on the barbecue grill, now my scars are all healing, but my heart never will.
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You fake something until you’re good at it.
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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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I was abducted by some aliens from space who kind a looked like Jamie Farr.
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I make charts of songs that are good candidates, good targets, so to speak.
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He put Ben Gay inside my jock strap and filled my tooth paste tube up with glue.
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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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Then I try to come up with ideas for parodies. And 99% of those ideas are horrible.
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My own personal tastes don’t really have an effect on whether song is a parody target or not. But having said that,
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That’s something the kids should know about. Reading is a gateway to witchcraft and lesbianism.
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