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.
AL YANKOVICI did have a child, and I was reading a lot of picture books to her, but at the same time writing a children’s book was something that I’d been wanting to do for many years, pretty much since the start of my career.
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Beans, beans, the magic legumes – the more you ingest, the more you consume.
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I don’t want to hear about this train being derailed! What happened to ‘The Flintstones’?’
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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 like to think that I’ve gotten better at what I do. I spend more time and pay more attention to detail album after album. But pretty much it’s stayed the same.
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I enjoy all kinds of music. But it is kind of strange when I do parodies, instead of setting up drums and guitar amps.
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So that was a joke that I continue up to this very day.
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Didn’t have Nintendo, we just poured salt on snails.
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You slammed my face down on the barbecue grill, now my scars are all healing, but my heart never will.
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Ever since the day you left me, I’ve been so miserable, my dear. I feel almost as bad as I did when you were still here.
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Pop culture’s gotten much more disposable.
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I don’t like to label myself. I know I’m very hard to pigeonhole.
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You make me wanna staple bagels to my face, then remove them with a pitchfork.
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I’m an ugly girl, My face makes you hurl, Sad I have it, I should bag it. Acne everywhere, Unwanted facial hair. I’m a relation to Frankenstein’s creation.
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I can bend paper clips into the shapes of small animals.
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I’d like to be able to be more topical and timely and more of-the-moment and I think the way to do that is, instead of waiting until I have twelve songs to release all at once, just to release them as I come up with them.
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I think my chances of ever making it into the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame are about as good as Milli Vanilli’s.
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My hobbies just sort of gradually became my vocation.
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You don’t need to be defined by your job.
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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.
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I suppose I had my rock star fantasies while I was singing into my hairbrush in the bathroom mirror, but I never really consciously said, ‘OK, this is what I’m going to do for a living and I’m going to be Weird Al.’
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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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As my father used to tell me, the only true sign of success in life is being able to do for a living that which makes you happy.
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Probably 90 percent of my albums have polka medleys.
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Now with internet culture it seems like everyone is doing music parodies. And they’re not all good!
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A lot of artists have really been supportive over the years.
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I make charts of songs that are good candidates, good targets, so to speak.
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