I’m watching the charts every week and hoping something will pop into my head.
AL YANKOVICThe window doesn’t open, the fan is broke, and my face is turning blue. I haven’t been in a crowd like this since I went to see the Who.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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Well I’ve made no secret of my life long love of MAD Magazine, it’s probably my first and greatest influence in terms of my comic sensibilities. I’ve known John [Ficarra] for many years, and we’ve been friends.
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Beans, beans, the magic legumes – the more you ingest, the more you consume.
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Boys like Peter are afraid of alot of things, like nuclear annihilation and flunking algebra, but they’re not afraid of wolves.
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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.
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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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You got me stranded on the bungee tower of love.
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I dated Siamese twins, I slept with Big Foot, too. Get me on Sally Jesse, put me on Donahue.
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So then why get upset if somebody like me Tries to look at the world just a bit differently?
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What kind of morons do you have working at newspapers in Austin that would base an entire review of an artist’s performance on whether or not they had a good seat?
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People that were a little nerdy in high school would look up to me and know it gets better.
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Right now I’m listening to a lot of Top 40 music, because THAT’S MY JOB.
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There’s a lot of different ways that a song would be a challenge to parody.
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Kind of wish I was dead. Maybe, I’ll blow my brains out, mama, or maybe I’ll go bowling.
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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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Velvet Elvis never puts on weight.
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If I could find the right kind of property, get tied in with the right movie, I’d love to be involved, but I just find it hard to be motivated to do another screenplay right now.
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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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In fact, when I come up with an idea for a parody I try to resist the urge to Google the idea to see if someone has done it already because the answer is almost always, “Yes, of course they have, they’ve thought of it!”
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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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In a genre where most of the artists are one-hit wonders, I’ve been able to hang around longer than most “serious” acts. I pride myself in being a very talented leech.
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I can’t get too offended when somebody parodies me.
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Probably 90 percent of my albums have polka medleys.
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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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I can bend paper clips into the shapes of small animals.
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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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I’m just a no-good, scum sucking, nose picking, boot licking, sniveling, groveling, worthless hunk of slime.
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