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Song Quotes by Al Yankovic
- 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…
- 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.
- I have very mixed feelings about it. On one hand, I’m concerned that the rampant downloading of my copyright-protected material over the Internet is severely…
- There's a lot of different ways that a song would be a challenge to parody. There are a lot of songs that would ostensibly be…
- A lot of rap songs don't usually have a lot of melody per se.
- By the time I'm in the studio recording my parody, 10,000 parodies of that song are on YouTube.
- I make charts of songs that are good candidates, good targets, so to speak. Then I try to come up with ideas for parodies. And…
More Song Quotes
- In every song I write, whether it's a love song or a political song or a song about family, the one thing… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Set lists are tough because you come up with this structure of how the songs are going to go from one to… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song. — Louis Armstrong
- Storytelling is a very old human skill that gives us an evolutionary advantage. If you can tell young people how you kill… — Margaret Atwood
- You must pass your days in song. Let your whole life be a song. — Sai Baba
- Every single band in the world has these gigantic songs that people are obsessed with. — Sebastian Bach
- I don't understand the mentality of a rock fan, being obsessed with two or three songs from 25 years ago. I'm not… — Sebastian Bach
- A lot of people when they try to sing Skid Row songs, they're screaming and yelling too much. It's more singing than… — Sebastian Bach
- To think that when they come out with these gigantic songs, it's pretty tough to top them, you know. — Sebastian Bach
- My songs are like cheap Neil Young copies. — Randy Bachman
- I don't have one song that sounds like another one in my entire catalog. — Erykah Badu
- A songwriter writes songs all the time, whereas just writing a song can be done by anyone, anytime. — Bryan Adams