black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Velvet Elvis never puts on weight.

Al Yankovic

I’d rather clean all the bathrooms in Grand Central Station with my tongue than spend one more minute with you.
AL YANKOVIC

Bathroom Clean Grand Minute Spend Station Tongue
I dated Siamese twins, I slept with Big Foot, too. Get me on Sally Jesse, put me on Donahue.
AL YANKOVIC

Big Date Foot Put Sally Siamese Slept Too Twin
In the ’80s, I was putting out an album virtually every year, I think mostly based on fear – that if I didn’t, people would soon forget about me.
AL YANKOVIC

Album Based Eighty Every Fear Forget Mostly People Put Think Virtual Year
I think that nerds, if you want to call them that, have only gotten more hip and assimilated into the culture.
AL YANKOVIC

Assimilate Call Culture Gotten More Nerd Think Want
It’s hard to really articulate what the parameters are that make one song parody-able and another song not, but if I can come up with a good enough idea for it, I go for it, and if not, then I have to move on.
AL YANKOVIC

Articulate Enough Idea Make Movie Parameter Song
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.
AL YANKOVIC

Fright Ground Kitchen Light Love Pleasant Run Sound Squish
I have very mixed feelings about it. On one hand, I’m concerned that the rampant downloading of my copyright-protected material over the Internet is severely eating into my album sales and having a decidedly adverse effect on my career.
AL YANKOVIC

Career Concern Copyright Download Feel Hand MIxed One Rampant Song
I’m very analytical, I’m very precise.
AL YANKOVIC

Analytical Precise Very
Boys like Peter are afraid of alot of things, like nuclear annihilation and flunking algebra, but they’re not afraid of wolves.
AL YANKOVIC

Afraid Algebra Animation Boy Flunking Like Lot Nuclear Thing Wolf
There aren’t that many superstars around anymore.
AL YANKOVIC

Anyone Around Many Superstar
I tend to enunciate pretty well. It’s always seemed that my voice is one of those voices that people can recognize pretty easily – which has been a bit of a drawback for some characters.
AL YANKOVIC

Always Character Drawback Easily Enunciate People Pretty Recognize Seem Tenth Voice
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.
AL YANKOVIC

Although Dough Mean Some Velvet World Worth
Well I’ve made no secret of my life long love of MAD Magazine, it’s probably my first and greatest influence in terms of my comic sensibilities. I’ve known John [Ficarra] for many years, and we’ve been friends.
AL YANKOVIC

Country First Great Influence Mad Made Nice Probably Secret Year
You got me stranded on the bungee tower of love.
AL YANKOVIC

Bungee Love Lower Relationship Strand Tower
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

Accordion Amuse Cut Extreme Paly Rock Song Teenage
When I go to my live shows it’s often a multigenerational audience, a family bonding experience.
AL YANKOVIC

Experience Family Bond Live Show
I try to pick songs that I actually like because I realize that I have to live with these songs for a long time, from when I’m working on them in the studio to possibly playing them onstage for the rest of my life.
AL YANKOVIC

Actual Life Long Onstage Pick Possible Realize Rest Song Studio Time Work
Because you’re supposed to lose yourself in the character, but sometimes people look at a character and go “Oh, it’s ‘Weird Al.'”
AL YANKOVIC

Character Look People Sometimes Suppose Weird Yourself
Now with internet culture it seems like everyone is doing music parodies. And they’re not all good!
AL YANKOVIC

All Culture Do Everyone Good Internet Music Now Parody Seem
My wife went off with Elvis.
AL YANKOVIC

Off Went Wife
So then why get upset if somebody like me Tries to look at the world just a bit differently?
AL YANKOVIC

Differently Kind Somebody Thing Tries Upset
People never ask people doing serious music, ‘Do you ever think about doing funny music?’
AL YANKOVIC

Do Funny Music People Serious Think
If something is good enough, it can be out there and people will see it.
AL YANKOVIC

Enough Good People See Something
I’m stranded all alone in the gas station of love, and I have to use the self service pump.
AL YANKOVIC

Gas Pump Self Service Station Stranded Use
Every night for dinner we had a big chunk of dirt.
AL YANKOVIC

Big Chunk Dinner Dirt Every Night Reality
The window doesn’t open, the fan is broke, and my face is turning blue. I haven’t been in a crowd like this since I went to see the Who.
AL YANKOVIC

Ace Blue Broke Crowd Fan Open Since Turn Window
My personal taste doesn’t enter into it a lot when I make my decisions as to what to parody.
AL YANKOVIC

Book Decison Enetr Parody Personal Read

Velvet Elvis never puts on weight.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Velvet Elvis never puts on weight.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Al Yankovic Quotes