They do everything from gangsta rap to polka music and every genre in between. It’s amazing.
AL YANKOVICI do original songs in the style of other artists, where I try to learn all their musical idiosyncrasies and try to do something that sounds like them and yet is a bit more sick and twisted.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
-
-
I cut my teeth playing rock songs on the accordion when I was a teenager and my friends always thought that was extremely amusing.
AL YANKOVIC -
You don’t need to be defined by your job.
AL YANKOVIC -
It doesn’t take a military genius to see we’ll all be crispy critters after World War III.
AL YANKOVIC -
You can try on our suede underwear if you choose. Do what you want, but don’t step on my blue suede shoes.
AL YANKOVIC -
So then why get upset if somebody like me Tries to look at the world just a bit differently?
AL YANKOVIC -
He put Ben Gay inside my jock strap and filled my tooth paste tube up with glue.
AL YANKOVIC -
There’s a lot of different ways that a song would be a challenge to parody.
AL YANKOVIC -
I make charts of songs that are good candidates, good targets, so to speak.
AL YANKOVIC -
I enjoy all kinds of music. But it is kind of strange when I do parodies, instead of setting up drums and guitar amps.
AL YANKOVIC -
Maybe I’ll make a huge color tapestry from my belly button lint.
AL YANKOVIC -
Then I try to come up with ideas for parodies. And 99% of those ideas are horrible.
AL YANKOVIC -
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.
AL YANKOVIC -
People that were a little nerdy in high school would look up to me and know it gets better.
AL YANKOVIC -
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.
AL YANKOVIC -
You can play some schlock like New Kids On the Block.
AL YANKOVIC