I’m an ugly girl, My face makes you hurl, Sad I have it, I should bag it. Acne everywhere, Unwanted facial hair. I’m a relation to Frankenstein’s creation.
AL YANKOVICAs much as people are griping about the Internet taking sales away from artists, it’s been a huge promotional tool for me.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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Not only are they just great, nice guys; they’re some of the best musicians you’re likely to find.
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Beans, beans, the magic legumes – the more you ingest, the more you consume.
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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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I make charts of songs that are good candidates, good targets, so to speak.
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I was abducted by some aliens from space who kind a looked like Jamie Farr.
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I do original songs in the style of other artists, where I try to learn all their musical idiosyncrasies and try to do something that sounds like them and yet is a bit more sick and twisted.
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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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When I started out, I didn’t feel like I was really accepted in the music or comedy communities, and I was somewhere on the edge, but now I feel like I’m accepted in both, which is extremely gratifying.
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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.
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There’s a lot of different ways that a song would be a challenge to parody.
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On the other hand, I can get all the Metallica songs I want for FREE! WOW!
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I think my chances of ever making it into the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame are about as good as Milli Vanilli’s.
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I am not making this up. Needless to say, as soon as I discovered that, I gave up meat entirely.
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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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No Joni Mitchell 8 track tapes in my car.
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There are probably a few library fines I haven’t paid yet, but I’m a pretty clean-cut guy overall.
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I don’t watch anything on a regular basis – I tend to binge-watch things.
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I decided that I wanted to be a voice on every animated cartoon in the history of the world – even shows that haven’t been on the air for a very long time, that’s going to be harder to pull off.
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A lot of artists have really been supportive over the years.
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Take down those naked pictures of Ernest Borgnine.
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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.
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I’m still a geek on the inside, that’s the important thing.
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Midget wrestling on channel 3, it costs me 50 bucks a month.
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You can play some schlock like New Kids On the Block.
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Left all my Beatle records out in the sun, got a coke bottle stuck on the end of my tongue.
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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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