Yankovic Parody Quotes

#1. A concert is always like a feast day to me.

James Taylor

#2. I'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.

Al Yankovic

#3. We think we move, we run, we push forward, but, I think, in many ways we are still running in place, trapped in a moment that happened to us long ago.

Robert Jackson Bennett

#4. So that's why one of my rules of parody writing is that it's gotta be funny regardless of whether you know the source material. It has to work on its own merit.

Al Yankovic

#5. Whenever I do a parody it's not meant to make you hate anybody's music really.

Al Yankovic

#6. At this point I've got a bit of a track record. So people realize that when 'Weird Al' wants to go parody, it's not meant to make them look bad ... it's meant to be a tribute.

Al Yankovic

#7. Trust is an ethereal quality. Like oxygen or light we notice it only by its absence.

David Amerland

#8. Nicolette, Kendalle, and Alexandra are my children. Their mother, Cynthia Beck, and I, love them very much.

Gordon Getty

#9. A man grows weary of having no lovers but his fingers.

George R R Martin

#10. If you are unable to reach a person you must know that this happens not because that the roads are closed but because you don't know the true paths to reach that person!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#11. My personal taste doesn't enter into it a lot when I make my decisions as to what to parody.

Al Yankovic

#12. By the time I'm in the studio recording my parody, 10,000 parodies of that song are on YouTube.

Al Yankovic

#13. 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.

Al Yankovic

#14. 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