I don’t watch a lot of other people’s parodies because I don’t want to be unduly influenced.
AL YANKOVICHe died a long painful death. However, you’ll be happy to hear that just a few years later he was reincarnated as Shirley MacLaine.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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Sometimes I get, “Have you ever thought about doing real music?” I like to think the music I do is real, it just happens to be funny.
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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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Doing things that I don’t know how to do, and keep doing them until I get good at them.
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Because you’re supposed to lose yourself in the character, but sometimes people look at a character and go “Oh, it’s ‘Weird Al.'”
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I’m just a no-good, scum sucking, nose picking, boot licking, sniveling, groveling, worthless hunk of slime.
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I’m free to do what I please, I’m probably not going to do albums. Just because I think releasing tracks as singles is a better way for me to stay topical.
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There are a lot of songs that would ostensibly be a good candidate for parody, yet I can’t think of a clever enough idea.
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I know now that everything I write, I’m going to put out, and I’ll have to live with it for the rest of my life.
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Not only are they just great, nice guys; they’re some of the best musicians you’re likely to find.
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People never ask people doing serious music, ‘Do you ever think about doing funny music?’
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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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My own personal tastes don’t really have an effect on whether song is a parody target or not. But having said that,
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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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Midget wrestling on channel 3, it costs me 50 bucks a month.
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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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