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 YANKOVICIt doesn’t take a military genius to see we’ll all be crispy critters after World War III.
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Maybe I’ll make a huge color tapestry from my belly button lint.
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I don’t want to hear about this train being derailed! What happened to ‘The Flintstones’?’
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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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You slammed my face down on the barbecue grill, now my scars are all healing, but my heart never will.
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As much as people are griping about the Internet taking sales away from artists, it’s been a huge promotional tool for me.
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Some songs are too repetitive for me to be able to fashion a humorous set of lyrics around. Some songs flat-out just don’t work creatively for me.
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Kind of wish I was dead. Maybe, I’ll blow my brains out, mama, or maybe I’ll go bowling.
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I know I’m a million times as humble as thou art!
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I’m stranded all alone in the gas station of love, and I have to use the self service pump.
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Probably 90 percent of my albums have polka medleys.
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So that was a joke that I continue up to this very day.
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I think that nerds, if you want to call them that, have only gotten more hip and assimilated into the culture.
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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’m known for being an up, high-energy, and optimistic kind of guy.
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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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