Top 35 Al Yankovic Quotes

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People never ask people doing serious music, 'Do you ev

People never ask people doing serious music, ‘Do you ever think about doing funny music?’
Al Yankovic
People that were a little nerdy in high school would look up to me and know it gets better.
Al Yankovic
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
In the ’80s, I was putting out an album virtually every year, I think mostly based on fear – that if I didn’t, people would soon forget about me.
Al Yankovic
You fake something until you’re good at it.
Al Yankovic
I’m obviously not a rapper, and I don’t have any claims to be one, really.
Al Yankovic
As much as people are griping about the Internet taking sales away from artists, it’s been a huge promotional tool for me.
Al Yankovic
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.’
Al Yankovic
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.
Al Yankovic
The irony is of course that my career has lasted a whole lot longer than some of the people I’ve parodied over the years.
Al Yankovic
As it turns out, there is a thing called the Internet, and stuff does go out there whether the suits like it or not.
Al Yankovic
Like, I have had moments, which I think most people have, where you’ll be watching TV, and it’ll be interrupted by some tragic event, and you’ll actually find yourself thinking, ‘I don’t want to hear about this train being derailed! What happened to ‘The Flintstones?’
Al Yankovic
One of my pet peeves is that sometimes the talents of my band get overlooked because, and it was the same problem that Frank Zappa had, with a lot of groups that use humor, people don’t realize there’s a lot of craft behind the comedy.
Al Yankovic
I’m very analytical, I’m very precise.
Al Yankovic
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
Whenever I do a parody it’s not meant to make you hate anybody’s music really.
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 a good enough idea for it, I go for it, and if not, then I have to move on.
Al Yankovic
I don’t think there are any new media I’d like to cover.
Al Yankovic
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.
Al Yankovic
A lot of artists have really been supportive over the years.
Al Yankovic
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.
Al Yankovic
I like the guitar-driven music of Nirvana at its peak. At that point, I thought there was a lot of really exciting music coming out.
Al Yankovic
I’ve done a movie and a TV series, and someday I’d like to do a successful movie and a successful TV series. That would be nice.
Al Yankovic
There are probably a few library fines I haven’t paid yet, but I’m a pretty clean-cut guy overall.
Al Yankovic
My hobbies just sort of gradually became my vocation.
Al Yankovic
Somebody will come up to me after a show and have me sign their arm, and the next time I see them my autograph has been permanently inscribed on their arm.
Al Yankovic
I mean, I hate to gloat, but I’m extremely satisfied with my position in life and the way things have worked out for me.
Al Yankovic
So I’m one of the few celebrities that got to do a repeat performance on ‘The Simpsons,’ which I’m very flattered by.
Al Yankovic
I’m still a geek on the inside, that’s the important thing.
Al Yankovic
I think that nerds, if you want to call them that, have only gotten more hip and assimilated into the culture.
Al Yankovic
Some people want to advertise their weirdness, and spread it out, that’s not me.
Al Yankovic
I was a huge fan of 'Mad' magazine when I was 11, 12, 1

I was a huge fan of ‘Mad’ magazine when I was 11, 12, 13 years old. I’d scour used bookstores trying to find back issues, and I’d wait at the newsstand for a new issue to come out. My life revolved around it.
Al Yankovic
It’s hard to force creativity and humor.
Al Yankovic
I did have a child, and I was reading a lot of picture books to her, but at the same time writing a children’s book was something that I’d been wanting to do for many years, pretty much since the start of my career.
Al Yankovic
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.
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