You slammed my face down on the barbecue grill, now my scars are all healing, but my heart never will.
AL YANKOVICWhereas 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.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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As a wise man once said, “April Fools Day is for amateurs. You NEVER need an excuse to mess with people’s heads.”
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A lot of rap songs don’t usually have a lot of melody per se.
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You got me stranded on the bungee tower of love.
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You still have Top 40 radio now, but it’s 40 different stations. There aren’t many hits that everybody knows, and there aren’t many real superstars.
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Some people want to advertise their weirdness, and spread it out, that’s not me.
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Nows the time to go for all the gusto you can grab. You’ll have plenty of time to be low-key when you’re laid out on the slab.
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As it turns out, there is a thing called the Internet, and stuff does go out there whether the suits like it or not.
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A lot of artists have really been supportive over the years.
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So I’m one of the few celebrities that got to do a repeat performance on ‘The Simpsons,’ which I’m very flattered by.
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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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Like, 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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No Joni Mitchell 8 track tapes in my car.
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My wife went off with Elvis.
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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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My brothers and sisters hated me because I was an only child.
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I think that nerds, if you want to call them that, have only gotten more hip and assimilated into the culture.
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Beans, beans, the magic legumes – the more you ingest, the more you consume.
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I decided that I wanted to be a voice on every animated cartoon in the history of the world – even shows that haven’t been on the air for a very long time, that’s going to be harder to pull off.
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I don’t think there are any new media I’d like to cover.
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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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I was abducted by some aliens from space who kind a looked like Jamie Farr.
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Then I try to come up with ideas for parodies. And 99% of those ideas are horrible.
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Got a brand new semi-automatic weapon with a laser sight. Oh, I’m praying that somebody tries to break in here tonight.
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I love the way they run in fright when I turn on the kitchen light. And when I squish them on the ground, they make a pleasant crunchy sound.
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It’s very much a “Weird Al” themed issue, so I’d like to think that there’s a lot of “Weird Al” flavor throughout but I think it’d be generous really to call me an editor.
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My process for the parodies is that I get an idea for a song and then get approval from the artist and then go in and record it and probably try to get it out as soon as possible.
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