I enjoy all kinds of music. But it is kind of strange when I do parodies, instead of setting up drums and guitar amps.
AL YANKOVICMy 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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I’ll be mellow when I’m dead.
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Didn’t have Nintendo, we just poured salt on snails.
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I make charts of songs that are good candidates, good targets, so to speak.
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Buy our album, were Nirvana, a garage band from Seattle. Well, it sure beats raising cattle.
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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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When I swore that you’re getting more and more beautiful everyday. Well, I was only kidding, honey.
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They do everything from gangsta rap to polka music and every genre in between. It’s amazing.
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I’ve learned how to use my spam filter pretty effectively.
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There’s enough people that do unfunny music. I’ll leave the serious stuff to Paris Hilton and Kevin Federline.
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Pop culture’s gotten much more disposable.
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I cut my teeth playing rock songs on the accordion when I was a teenager and my friends always thought that was extremely amusing.
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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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One of the hardest things I’ve had to deal with in my career is keeping my material topical even though I only release albums every three or four years.
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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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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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