My personal taste doesn’t enter into it a lot when I make my decisions as to what to parody.
AL YANKOVICAs much as people are griping about the Internet taking sales away from artists, it’s been a huge promotional tool for me.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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That’s something the kids should know about. Reading is a gateway to witchcraft and lesbianism.
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I’d rather clean all the bathrooms in Grand Central Station with my tongue than spend one more minute with you.
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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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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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Some people want to advertise their weirdness, and spread it out, that’s not me.
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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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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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How can you get bored if the audience is cheering and laughing at something you’re doing?
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I try to pick songs that I actually like because I realize that I have to live with these songs for a long time, from when I’m working on them in the studio to possibly playing them onstage for the rest of my life.
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People say releasing an album is like giving birth, but it’s more like having a gallbladder operation.
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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’m watching the charts every week and hoping something will pop into my head.
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I enjoy all kinds of music. But it is kind of strange when I do parodies, instead of setting up drums and guitar amps.
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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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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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