Some songs are too repetitive for me to be able to fashion a humorous set of lyrics around. Some songs flat-out just don’t work creatively for me.
AL YANKOVICI don’t want to hear about this train being derailed! What happened to ‘The Flintstones’?’
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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Many years ago I found out something about hamburgers that really grossed me out. You may not know this, so I hope I don’t make you sick, but it turns out hamburgers are actually made out of dead cows.
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I don’t want to pooh-pooh modern pop. I appreciate that as well, but my personal favorite kind of music is guitar-based rock. I like grunge and garage bands and alternative music, but that’s more my personal taste.
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Beans, beans, the magic legumes – the more you ingest, the more you consume.
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There aren’t that many superstars around anymore.
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My wife went off with Elvis.
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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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The irony is of course that my career has lasted a whole lot longer than some of the people I’ve parodied over the years.
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I know I’m a million times as humble as thou art!
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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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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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I don’t watch anything on a regular basis – I tend to binge-watch things.
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Velvet Elvis never puts on weight.
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I can’t get too offended when somebody parodies me.
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That’s a big part of my life – doing things that I’m not prepared to do.
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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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