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.
AL YANKOVICWhen 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.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
-
-
I’d like to be able to be more topical and timely and more of-the-moment and I think the way to do that is, instead of waiting until I have twelve songs to release all at once, just to release them as I come up with them.
AL YANKOVIC -
That’s a big part of my life – doing things that I’m not prepared to do.
AL YANKOVIC -
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.
AL YANKOVIC -
I mean, I hate to gloat, but I’m extremely satisfied with my position in life and the way things have worked out for me.
AL YANKOVIC -
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.
AL YANKOVIC -
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.
AL YANKOVIC -
Velvet Elvis never puts on weight.
AL YANKOVIC -
I guess I lost a little bit of self-esteem that time that you made it with the whole hockey team.
AL YANKOVIC -
No Joni Mitchell 8 track tapes in my car.
AL YANKOVIC -
I think that nerds, if you want to call them that, have only gotten more hip and assimilated into the culture.
AL YANKOVIC -
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.
AL YANKOVIC -
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.
AL YANKOVIC -
He put Ben Gay inside my jock strap and filled my tooth paste tube up with glue.
AL YANKOVIC -
I’m known for being an up, high-energy, and optimistic kind of guy.
AL YANKOVIC -
Doing things that I don’t know how to do, and keep doing them until I get good at them.
AL YANKOVIC