I’m very analytical, I’m very precise. I mean, I don’t write for kids.
AL YANKOVICI’m a music fan, and I can listen to the radio, or music, without thinking, “How am I going to screw this up?” [Laughs] If I’m really actively trying to think of a parody, then I’ll have my antenna out, and be a little more proactive about it.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
-
-
You can play some schlock like New Kids On the Block.
AL YANKOVIC -
You got me stranded on the bungee tower of love.
AL YANKOVIC -
About four or five months ago, at a dinner in New York, John made the very nice offer of my being guest editor for an issue of MAD and I thought about it for about half a nanosecond and decided that was a pretty good idea.
AL YANKOVIC -
Take down those naked pictures of Ernest Borgnine.
AL YANKOVIC -
What kind of morons do you have working at newspapers in Austin that would base an entire review of an artist’s performance on whether or not they had a good seat?
AL YANKOVIC -
I’m obviously not a rapper, and I don’t have any claims to be one, really.
AL YANKOVIC -
I 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.
AL YANKOVIC -
And then I’ll try and arrange them in a way that they would tell a semi-cohesive story.
AL YANKOVIC -
Whenever I do a parody it’s not meant to make you hate anybody’s music really.
AL YANKOVIC -
A lot of artists have really been supportive over the years.
AL YANKOVIC -
I’m watching the charts every week and hoping something will pop into my head.
AL YANKOVIC -
I was abducted by some aliens from space who kind a looked like Jamie Farr.
AL YANKOVIC -
Boys like Peter are afraid of alot of things, like nuclear annihilation and flunking algebra, but they’re not afraid of wolves.
AL YANKOVIC -
I can’t get too offended when somebody parodies me.
AL YANKOVIC -
Nows the time to go for all the gusto you can grab. You’ll have plenty of time to be low-key when you’re laid out on the slab.
AL YANKOVIC