Maybe I’ll make a huge color tapestry from my belly button lint.
AL YANKOVICBy the time I’m in the studio recording my parody, 10,000 parodies of that song are on YouTube.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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Some people want to advertise their weirdness, and spread it out, that’s not me.
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I’m free to do what I please, I’m probably not going to do albums. Just because I think releasing tracks as singles is a better way for me to stay topical.
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Not only are they just great, nice guys; they’re some of the best musicians you’re likely to find.
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Every night for dinner we had a big chunk of dirt.
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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 did have a child, and I was reading a lot of picture books to her, but at the same time writing a children’s book was something that I’d been wanting to do for many years, pretty much since the start of my career.
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No Joni Mitchell 8 track tapes in my car.
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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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I’ve always known that if I recorded an album, it would come out, and people would enjoy it!
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At this point I’ve got a bit of a track record. So people realize that when ‘Weird Al’ wants to go parody, it’s not meant to make them look bad… it’s meant to be a tribute.
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As much as people are griping about the Internet taking sales away from artists, it’s been a huge promotional tool for me.
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I like the guitar-driven music of Nirvana at its peak. At that point, I thought there was a lot of really exciting music coming out.
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When I swore that you’re getting more and more beautiful everyday. Well, I was only kidding, honey.
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My brothers and sisters hated me because I was an only child.
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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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