All Al Yankovic Quotes
- I'll be mellow when I'm dead. Dead
- You fake something until you're good at it. Fake
- If money can't buy happiness, then I guess I'll have to rent it. Buy
- If you want to avoid heated arguments, never discuss religion, politics, or whether the toilet paper roll should go over or under. Argument
- One of my pet peeves is that sometimes the talents of my band get overlooked because, and it was the same problem that Frank Zappa… Band
- I did have a child, and I was reading a lot of picture books to her, but at the same time writing a children's book… Been
- It's hard to really articulate what the parameters are that make one song parody-able and another song not, but if I can come up with… Able
- My personal taste doesn't enter into it a lot when I make my decisions as to what to parody. Decision
- So that's why one of my rules of parody writing is that it's gotta be funny regardless of whether you know the source material. It… Funny
- There are a lot of songs that would ostensibly be a good candidate for parody, yet I can't think of a clever enough idea. Candidate
- There's enough people that do unfunny music. I'll leave the serious stuff to Paris Hilton and Kevin Federline. Enough People
- I know I'm a million times as humble as thou art! Art
- I have very mixed feelings about it. On one hand, I’m concerned that the rampant downloading of my copyright-protected material over the Internet is severely… Adverse
- People say releasing an album is like giving birth, but it’s more like having a gallbladder operation. Album
- 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… Actually Made
- People never ask people doing serious music, 'Do you ever think about doing funny music?' Ask
- What kind of morons do you have working at newspapers in Austin that would base an entire review of an artist's performance on whether or… Artist
- When I go to my live shows it's often a multigenerational audience, a family bonding experience. Audience
- Whenever I do a parody it's not meant to make you hate anybody's music really. Anybody
- If something is good enough, it can be out there and people will see it. Good
- It's hard to force creativity and humor. Creativity
- Probably 90 percent of my albums have polka medleys. Albums
- There aren't that many superstars around anymore. Anymore
- You don't need to be defined by your job. Defined
- It becomes more important to me as time goes on to make every album the best thing I've ever done, so it's a lot of… Album