Then I try to come up with ideas for parodies. And 99% of those ideas are horrible.
AL YANKOVICEver 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.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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My brothers and sisters hated me because I was an only child.
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People say releasing an album is like giving birth, but it’s more like having a gallbladder operation.
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You can play some schlock like New Kids On the Block.
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Until you came along I never dated anyone this low on the food chain.
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You don’t need to be defined by your job.
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That’s something the kids should know about. Reading is a gateway to witchcraft and lesbianism.
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I dated Siamese twins, I slept with Big Foot, too. Get me on Sally Jesse, put me on Donahue.
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It’s hard to say, I picked one of my favorite articles for the MAD vault. Which is one of the features of the Magazine so they don’t have to actually pay artists or writers to come up with new stuff.
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I’ll be mellow when I’m dead.
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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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By the time I’m in the studio recording my parody, 10,000 parodies of that song are on YouTube.
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So I try not to pick songs that I know would drive me crazy.
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I can’t say enough good things about my band. I feel very fortunate that I found them when I did, very early in my career.
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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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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.
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