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.
AL YANKOVICLike, I have had moments, which I think most people have, where you’ll be watching TV, and it’ll be interrupted by some tragic event, and you’ll actually find yourself thinking,
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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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My brothers and sisters hated me because I was an only child.
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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 was abducted by some aliens from space who kind a looked like Jamie Farr.
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He died a long painful death. However, you’ll be happy to hear that just a few years later he was reincarnated as Shirley MacLaine.
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I know I’m a million times as humble as thou art!
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It’s hard to force creativity and humor.
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I don’t really look at myself as the kind of person who craves attention, but I’ve never been to therapy so there’s probably a lot of stuff about myself that I don’t know.
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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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Until you came along I never dated anyone this low on the food chain.
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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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When I go to my live shows it’s often a multigenerational audience, a family bonding experience.
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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 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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My wife went off with Elvis.
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