My wife went off with Elvis.
AL YANKOVICGot a brand new semi-automatic weapon with a laser sight. Oh, I’m praying that somebody tries to break in here tonight.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
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I tend to enunciate pretty well. It’s always seemed that my voice is one of those voices that people can recognize pretty easily – which has been a bit of a drawback for some characters.
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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 still a geek on the inside, that’s the important thing.
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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 know I’m a million times as humble as thou art!
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I’m known for being an up, high-energy, and optimistic kind of guy.
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No Joni Mitchell 8 track tapes in my car.
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I do a lot of different things, sometimes at the same time, and it’s very difficult to figure out where I fit.
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Maybe I’ll make a huge color tapestry from my belly button lint.
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One of the hardest things I’ve had to deal with in my career is keeping my material topical even though I only release albums every three or four years.
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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’m very analytical, I’m very precise. I mean, I don’t write for kids.
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I’d rather clean all the bathrooms in Grand Central Station with my tongue than spend one more minute with you.
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Nows the time to go for all the gusto you can grab. You’ll have plenty of time to be low-key when you’re laid out on the slab.
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I write and write and write, and then I edit it down to the parts that I think are amusing, or that help the storyline, or I’ll write a notebook full of ideas of anecdotes or story points.
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I think that was the genesis of my polka medleys, because every rock song I played on the accordion just sounded like a polka and my friends thought it was funny.
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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 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 can bend paper clips into the shapes of small animals.
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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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That’s a big part of my life – doing things that I’m not prepared to do.
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My velvet Elvis means the world to me. Although he may not be worth much dough, he means more to me than some old Rembrandt or Van Gogh.
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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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The music has always been my bread and butter, and I’ve focused more of my attention on that.
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Many years ago I found out something about hamburgers that really grossed me out. You may not know this, so I hope I don’t make you sick, but it turns out hamburgers are actually made out of dead cows.
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