A lot of artists have really been supportive over the years.
AL YANKOVICThere 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 can try on our suede underwear if you choose. Do what you want, but don’t step on my blue suede shoes.
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My brothers and sisters hated me because I was an only child.
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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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That’s something the kids should know about. Reading is a gateway to witchcraft and lesbianism.
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It was difficult to get into my friends’ rock bands when I was a teenager.
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I know I’m a million times as humble as thou art!
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I like to think that I’ve gotten better at what I do. I spend more time and pay more attention to detail album after album. But pretty much it’s stayed the same.
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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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In the ’80s, I was putting out an album virtually every year, I think mostly based on fear – that if I didn’t, people would soon forget about me.
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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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I guess I lost a little bit of self-esteem that time that you made it with the whole hockey team.
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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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It becomes more important to me as time goes on to make every album the best thing I’ve ever done, so it’s a lot of self-imposed pressure that also kind of slows me down a bit.
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My wife went off with Elvis.
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I’ll bet every great thinker and leader we’ve got Could see all kinds of things other people could not!
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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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I was abducted by some aliens from space who kind a looked like Jamie Farr.
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I was a huge fan of ‘Mad’ magazine when I was 11, 12, 13 years old. I’d scour used bookstores trying to find back issues, and I’d wait at the newsstand for a new issue to come out. My life revolved around it.
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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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Midget wrestling on channel 3, it costs me 50 bucks a month.
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So I try not to pick songs that I know would drive me crazy.
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I knew we were having problems when you put those piranhas in my bathtub again.
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I make charts of songs that are good candidates, good targets, so to speak.
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One of my pet peeves is that sometimes the talents of my band get overlooked because, and it was the same problem that Frank Zappa had, with a lot of groups that use humor, people don’t realize there’s a lot of craft behind the comedy.
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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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Doing things that I don’t know how to do, and keep doing them until I get good at them.
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