You make me wanna staple bagels to my face, then remove them with a pitchfork.
AL YANKOVICPeople say releasing an album is like giving birth, but it’s more like having a gallbladder operation.
More Al Yankovic Quotes
-
-
Every night for dinner we had a big chunk of dirt.
AL YANKOVIC -
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 -
If something is good enough, it can be out there and people will see it.
AL YANKOVIC -
I like to think that I’ve gotten better at what I do. I spend more time and pay more attention to detail album after album. But pretty much it’s stayed the same.
AL YANKOVIC -
Didn’t have Nintendo, we just poured salt on snails.
AL YANKOVIC -
My brothers and sisters hated me because I was an only child.
AL YANKOVIC -
Somebody will come up to me after a show and have me sign their arm, and the next time I see them my autograph has been permanently inscribed on their arm.
AL YANKOVIC -
There’s a lot of different ways that a song would be a challenge to parody.
AL YANKOVIC -
The irony is of course that my career has lasted a whole lot longer than some of the people I’ve parodied over the years.
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 -
It fit pretty nicely into my schedule because we’d pretty much finished the bulk of promotion for Mandatory Fun and were just getting geared up for the World Tour so this was a nice time for me to be working on it.
AL YANKOVIC -
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,
AL YANKOVIC -
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 YANKOVIC -
You fake something until you’re good at it.
AL YANKOVIC -
I’m still a geek on the inside, that’s the important thing.
AL YANKOVIC