You don’t need to be defined by your job.
AL YANKOVICThere 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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There’s a lot of different ways that a song would be a challenge to parody.
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My wife went off with Elvis.
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And then I’ll try and arrange them in a way that they would tell a semi-cohesive story.
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I guess I lost a little bit of self-esteem that time that you made it with the whole hockey team.
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Buy our album, were Nirvana, a garage band from Seattle. Well, it sure beats raising cattle.
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Beans, beans, the magic legumes – the more you ingest, the more you consume.
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On the other hand, I can get all the Metallica songs I want for FREE! WOW!
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After that, I made the decision to headline no matter what, even if I was playing to seven people. I wanted people to be there to see me.
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Many years ago I found out something about hamburgers that really grossed me out. You may not know this, so I hope I don’t make you sick, but it turns out hamburgers are actually made out of dead cows.
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You can play some schlock like New Kids On the Block.
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I knew we were having problems when you put those piranhas in my bathtub again.
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My own personal tastes don’t really have an effect on whether song is a parody target or not. But having said that,
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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.
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You still have Top 40 radio now, but it’s 40 different stations. There aren’t many hits that everybody knows, and there aren’t many real superstars.
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Every night for dinner we had a big chunk of dirt.
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