Ever since the day you left me, I’ve been so miserable, my dear. I feel almost as bad as I did when you were still here.
AL YANKOVICYou can try on our suede underwear if you choose. Do what you want, but don’t step on my blue suede shoes.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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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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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.
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So that was a joke that I continue up to this very day.
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I dated Siamese twins, I slept with Big Foot, too. Get me on Sally Jesse, put me on Donahue.
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I’ve always known that if I recorded an album, it would come out, and people would enjoy it!
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I was abducted by some aliens from space who kind a looked like Jamie Farr.
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I don’t watch anything on a regular basis – I tend to binge-watch things.
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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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A lot of my cartoon voices are basically just variations on my natural voice.
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And then I’ll try and arrange them in a way that they would tell a semi-cohesive story.
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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,
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I was able to come up with a couple articles for the magazine, I was able to solicit help from a bunch of my friends to contribute pieces: Patton Oswalt, Seth Green, Emo Phillips, Chris Hardwick, John Hodgman, and more.
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No Joni Mitchell 8 track tapes in my car.
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It’s very much a “Weird Al” themed issue, so I’d like to think that there’s a lot of “Weird Al” flavor throughout but I think it’d be generous really to call me an editor.
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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.
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I know I’m a million times as humble as thou art!
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Whereas if I wrote a movie script, chances are better than even that I’d just be another guy in L.A. with a movie script in his drawer.
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In the ’80s, I was the only game in town, I was the only one getting that kind of exposure in any rotation on MTV.
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As a kid, I certainly never thought I would get to spend my life doing something fun.
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Until you came along I never dated anyone this low on the food chain.
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As a wise man once said, “April Fools Day is for amateurs. You NEVER need an excuse to mess with people’s heads.”
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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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I knew we were having problems when you put those piranhas in my bathtub again.
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I start with a comprehensive list of all the recent songs that have been big hits – and then I go down that list and see if I can come up with funny ideas for them. I can always come up with ideas, but not necessarily good ones!
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My hobbies just sort of gradually became my vocation.
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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.
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