Whereas if I wrote a movie script, chances are better than even that I’d just be another guy in L.A. with a movie script in his drawer.
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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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I have very mixed feelings about it. On one hand, I’m concerned that the rampant downloading of my copyright-protected material over the Internet is severely eating into my album sales and having a decidedly adverse effect on my career.
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Until you came along I never dated anyone this low on the food chain.
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Take down those naked pictures of Ernest Borgnine.
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I’ve done a movie and a TV series, and someday I’d like to do a successful movie and a successful TV series. That would be nice.
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I’m very analytical, I’m very precise. I mean, I don’t write for kids.
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On the other hand, I can get all the Metallica songs I want for FREE! WOW!
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I don’t want to pooh-pooh modern pop. I appreciate that as well, but my personal favorite kind of music is guitar-based rock. I like grunge and garage bands and alternative music, but that’s more my personal taste.
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No Joni Mitchell 8 track tapes in my car.
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Many years ago I found out something about hamburgers that really grossed me out. You may not know this, so I hope I don’t make you sick, but it turns out hamburgers are actually made out of dead cows.
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Midget wrestling on channel 3, it costs me 50 bucks a month.
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I’m always a little leery about doing shows where I’m not the headliner because when I first started playing in 1982 I opened for Missing Persons and got pelted for 45 minutes.
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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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If you want to avoid heated arguments, never discuss religion, politics, or whether the toilet paper roll should go over or under.
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Buy our album, were Nirvana, a garage band from Seattle. Well, it sure beats raising cattle.
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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 aren’t that many superstars around anymore.
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I think that was the genesis of my polka medleys, because every rock song I played on the accordion just sounded like a polka and my friends thought it was funny.
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I mean, I hate to gloat, but I’m extremely satisfied with my position in life and the way things have worked out for me.
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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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They do everything from gangsta rap to polka music and every genre in between. It’s amazing.
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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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So I try not to pick songs that I know would drive me crazy.
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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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If something is good enough, it can be out there and people will see it.
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It’s hard to say, I picked one of my favorite articles for the MAD vault. Which is one of the features of the Magazine so they don’t have to actually pay artists or writers to come up with new stuff.
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