There’s a lot of different ways that a song would be a challenge to parody.
AL YANKOVICThere’s a lot of different ways that a song would be a challenge to parody.
AL YANKOVICNot only are they just great, nice guys; they’re some of the best musicians you’re likely to find.
AL YANKOVICDidn’t have Nintendo, we just poured salt on snails.
AL YANKOVICPeople say releasing an album is like giving birth, but it’s more like having a gallbladder operation.
AL YANKOVICYou fake something until you’re good at it.
AL YANKOVICYou 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.
AL YANKOVICI’d rather clean all the bathrooms in Grand Central Station with my tongue than spend one more minute with you.
AL YANKOVICI cut my teeth playing rock songs on the accordion when I was a teenager and my friends always thought that was extremely amusing.
AL YANKOVICMy 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.
AL YANKOVICThere’s enough people that do unfunny music. I’ll leave the serious stuff to Paris Hilton and Kevin Federline.
AL YANKOVICThere are a lot of songs that would ostensibly be a good candidate for parody, yet I can’t think of a clever enough idea.
AL YANKOVICI’ve done a movie and a TV series, and someday I’d like to do a successful movie and a successful TV series. That would be nice.
AL YANKOVICAs much as people are griping about the Internet taking sales away from artists, it’s been a huge promotional tool for me.
AL YANKOVICThen I try to come up with ideas for parodies. And 99% of those ideas are horrible.
AL YANKOVICIt’s hard to force creativity and humor.
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.
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