Got a brand new semi-automatic weapon with a laser sight. Oh, I’m praying that somebody tries to break in here tonight.
AL YANKOVICI’m still a geek on the inside, that’s the important thing.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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It was difficult to get into my friends’ rock bands when I was a teenager.
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When I go to my live shows it’s often a multigenerational audience, a family bonding experience.
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I love the way they run in fright when I turn on the kitchen light. And when I squish them on the ground, they make a pleasant crunchy sound.
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I’m free to do what I please, I’m probably not going to do albums. Just because I think releasing tracks as singles is a better way for me to stay topical.
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Well I’ve made no secret of my life long love of MAD Magazine, it’s probably my first and greatest influence in terms of my comic sensibilities. I’ve known John [Ficarra] for many years, and we’ve been friends.
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I’ve always enjoyed animation and voiceover work. That’s something that I’ve been proactive about.
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It doesn’t take a military genius to see we’ll all be crispy critters after World War III.
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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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There’s a lot of different ways that a song would be a challenge to parody.
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Midget wrestling on channel 3, it costs me 50 bucks a month.
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In a genre where most of the artists are one-hit wonders, I’ve been able to hang around longer than most “serious” acts. I pride myself in being a very talented leech.
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I’m obviously not a rapper, and I don’t have any claims to be one, really.
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He put Ben Gay inside my jock strap and filled my tooth paste tube up with glue.
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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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You can try on our suede underwear if you choose. Do what you want, but don’t step on my blue suede shoes.
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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.’
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I don’t want to pooh-pooh modern pop. I appreciate that as well, but my personal favorite kind of music is guitar-based rock. I like grunge and garage bands and alternative music, but that’s more my personal taste.
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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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You don’t need to be defined by your job.
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Probably 90 percent of my albums have polka medleys.
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When I swore that you’re getting more and more beautiful everyday. Well, I was only kidding, honey.
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Until you came along I never dated anyone this low on the food chain.
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I’m always a little leery about doing shows where I’m not the headliner because when I first started playing in 1982 I opened for Missing Persons and got pelted for 45 minutes.
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A lot of my cartoon voices are basically just variations on my natural voice.
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How can you get bored if the audience is cheering and laughing at something you’re doing?
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Sometimes I get, “Have you ever thought about doing real music?” I like to think the music I do is real, it just happens to be funny.
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