Not any specific one, but I was a huge fan of Frank Jacobs, I guess he wrote the plurality of the song parodies for MAD, Sam Hart, a few others, but that was also where I was first exposed to the art form of song parodies.
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More Al Yankovic Quotes
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You can play some schlock like New Kids On the Block.
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My velvet Elvis means the world to me. Although he may not be worth much dough, he means more to me than some old Rembrandt or Van Gogh.
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My wife went off with Elvis.
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As much as people are griping about the Internet taking sales away from artists, it’s been a huge promotional tool for me.
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I like the guitar-driven music of Nirvana at its peak. At that point, I thought there was a lot of really exciting music coming out.
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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’ve always known that if I recorded an album, it would come out, and people would enjoy it!
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I’d rather clean all the bathrooms in Grand Central Station with my tongue than spend one more minute with you.
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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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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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It fit pretty nicely into my schedule because we’d pretty much finished the bulk of promotion for Mandatory Fun and were just getting geared up for the World Tour so this was a nice time for me to be working on it.
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Velvet Elvis never puts on weight.
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I cut my teeth playing rock songs on the accordion when I was a teenager and my friends always thought that was extremely amusing.
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It’s very much a “Weird Al” themed issue, so I’d like to think that there’s a lot of “Weird Al” flavor throughout but I think it’d be generous really to call me an editor.
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If you want to avoid heated arguments, never discuss religion, politics, or whether the toilet paper roll should go over or under.
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