I’d rather clean all the bathrooms in Grand Central Station with my tongue than spend one more minute with you.
AL YANKOVICNot only are they just great, nice guys; they’re some of the best musicians you’re likely to find.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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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?
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As my father used to tell me, the only true sign of success in life is being able to do for a living that which makes you happy.
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I can bend paper clips into the shapes of small animals.
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I suppose I had my rock star fantasies while I was singing into my hairbrush in the bathroom mirror, but I never really consciously said, ‘OK, this is what I’m going to do for a living and I’m going to be Weird Al.’
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I’m watching the charts every week and hoping something will pop into my head.
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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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Sometimes I get, “Have you ever thought about doing real music?” I like to think the music I do is real, it just happens to be funny.
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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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On the other hand, I can get all the Metallica songs I want for FREE! WOW!
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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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I’m still a geek on the inside, that’s the important thing.
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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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A lot of rap songs don’t usually have a lot of melody per se.
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I’ll bet every great thinker and leader we’ve got Could see all kinds of things other people could not!
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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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Then I try to come up with ideas for parodies. And 99% of those ideas are horrible.
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If I could find the right kind of property, get tied in with the right movie, I’d love to be involved, but I just find it hard to be motivated to do another screenplay right now.
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I write and write and write, and then I edit it down to the parts that I think are amusing, or that help the storyline, or I’ll write a notebook full of ideas of anecdotes or story points.
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Maybe I’ll make a huge color tapestry from my belly button lint.
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Ever since the day you left me, I’ve been so miserable, my dear. I feel almost as bad as I did when you were still here.
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I don’t really look at myself as the kind of person who craves attention, but I’ve never been to therapy so there’s probably a lot of stuff about myself that I don’t know.
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I was able to come up with a couple articles for the magazine, I was able to solicit help from a bunch of my friends to contribute pieces: Patton Oswalt, Seth Green, Emo Phillips, Chris Hardwick, John Hodgman, and more.
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They do everything from gangsta rap to polka music and every genre in between. It’s amazing.
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Now with internet culture it seems like everyone is doing music parodies. And they’re not all good!
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People that were a little nerdy in high school would look up to me and know it gets better.
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There are a lot of songs that would ostensibly be a good candidate for parody, yet I can’t think of a clever enough idea.
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