I do original songs in the style of other artists, where I try to learn all their musical idiosyncrasies and try to do something that sounds like them and yet is a bit more sick and twisted.
AL YANKOVICI’d rather clean all the bathrooms in Grand Central Station with my tongue than spend one more minute with you.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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It doesn’t take a military genius to see we’ll all be crispy critters after World War III.
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I do a lot of different things, sometimes at the same time, and it’s very difficult to figure out where I fit.
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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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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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A lot of rap songs don’t usually have a lot of melody per se.
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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 can’t get too offended when somebody parodies me.
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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 think my chances of ever making it into the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame are about as good as Milli Vanilli’s.
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Probably 90 percent of my albums have polka medleys.
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Sometimes I get, “Have you ever thought about doing real music?” I like to think the music I do is real, it just happens to be funny.
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Every night for dinner we had a big chunk of dirt.
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Take down those naked pictures of Ernest Borgnine.
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As my father used to tell me, the only true sign of success in life is being able to do for a living that which makes you happy.
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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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