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.
AL YANKOVICI’ll bet every great thinker and leader we’ve got Could see all kinds of things other people could not!
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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By the time I’m in the studio recording my parody, 10,000 parodies of that song are on YouTube.
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So that’s why one of my rules of parody writing is that it’s gotta be funny regardless of whether you know the source material. It has to work on its own merit.
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You don’t need to be defined by your job.
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Buy our album, were Nirvana, a garage band from Seattle. Well, it sure beats raising cattle.
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I’ve learned how to use my spam filter pretty effectively.
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Take down those naked pictures of Ernest Borgnine.
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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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Probably 90 percent of my albums have polka medleys.
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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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If something is good enough, it can be out there and people will see it.
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The 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.
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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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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 don’t watch a lot of other people’s parodies because I don’t want to be unduly influenced.
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I’ve always known that if I recorded an album, it would come out, and people would enjoy it!
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