Best 132 quotes of Al Yankovic on MyQuotes

A lot of artists have really been supportive over the years.

A lot of my cartoon voices are basically just variations on my natural voice.

A lot of rap songs don't usually have a lot of melody per se.

As a wise man once said, “April Fools Day is for amateurs. You NEVER need an excuse to mess with people's heads.”

As much as people are griping about the Internet taking sales away from artists, it's been a huge promotional tool for me.

As my father used to tell me, the only true sign of success in life is being able to do for a living that which makes you happy.

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.

Beans, beans, the magic legumes - the more you ingest, the more you consume.

Boys like Peter are afraid of alot of things, like nuclear annihilation and flunking algebra, but they're not afraid of wolves.

Buy our album, were Nirvana, a garage band from Seattle. Well, it sure beats raising cattle.

By the time I'm in the studio recording my parody, 10,000 parodies of that song are on YouTube.

Didn't have Nintendo, we just poured salt on snails.

Ever since the day you left me, I've been so miserable, my dear. I feel almost as bad as I did when you were still here.

Every night for dinner we had a big chunk of dirt.

Got a brand new semi-automatic weapon with a laser sight. Oh, I'm praying that somebody tries to break in here tonight.

He died a long painful death. However, you'll be happy to hear that just a few years later he was reincarnated as Shirley MacLaine.

He put Ben Gay inside my jock strap and filled my tooth paste tube up with glue.

How can you get bored if the audience is cheering and laughing at something you're doing?

I can bend paper clips into the shapes of small animals.

I can't get too offended when somebody parodies me.

I can't say enough good things about my band. I feel very fortunate that I found them when I did, very early in my career. Not only are they just great, nice guys; they're some of the best musicians you're likely to find. They do everything from gangsta rap to polka music and every genre in between. It's amazing.

I cut my teeth playing rock songs on the accordion when I was a teenager and my friends always thought that was extremely amusing. 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. So that was a joke that I continue up to this very day.

I dated Siamese twins, I slept with Big Foot, too. Get me on Sally Jesse, put me on Donahue.

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.

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 was something that I'd been wanting to do for many years, pretty much since the start of my career.

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.

I do a lot of different things, sometimes at the same time, and it's very difficult to figure out where I fit.

I don't think there are any new media I'd like to cover.

I don't really look at myself as the kind of person who craves attention, but I've never been to therapy so there's probably a lot of stuff about myself that I don't know.

I don't watch a lot of other people's parodies because I don't want to be unduly influenced.

I don't want to pooh-pooh modern pop. I appreciate that as well, but my personal favorite kind of music is guitar-based rock. I like grunge and garage bands and alternative music, but that's more my personal taste.

I don't watch anything on a regular basis - I tend to binge-watch things.

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.

I'd rather clean all the bathrooms in Grand Central Station with my tongue than spend one more minute with you.

I enjoy all kinds of music. But it is kind of strange when I do parodies, instead of setting up drums and guitar amps.

If I could find the right kind of property, get tied in with the right movie, I'd love to be involved, but I just find it hard to be motivated to do another screenplay right now.

If money can't buy happiness, then I guess I'll have to rent it.

If something is good enough, it can be out there and people will see it.

If you want to avoid heated arguments, never discuss religion, politics, or whether the toilet paper roll should go over or under.

I guess I lost a little bit of self-esteem that time that you made it with the whole hockey team.

I have a long-standing history of respecting artists' wishes.

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 eating into my album sales and having a decidedly adverse effect on my career. On the other hand, I can get all the Metallica songs I want for FREE! WOW!

I knew we were having problems when you put those piranhas in my bathtub again.

I like the guitar-driven music of Nirvana at its peak. At that point, I thought there was a lot of really exciting music coming out.

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.

I'll be mellow when I'm dead.

I'll bet every great thinker and leader we've got Could see all kinds of things other people could not! So then why get upset if somebody like me Tries to look at the world just a bit differently?

I love the way they run in fright when I turn on the kitchen light. And when I squish them on the ground, they make a pleasant crunchy sound.

I make charts of songs that are good candidates, good targets, so to speak. Then I try to come up with ideas for parodies. And 99% of those ideas are horrible.

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. After that, I made the decision to headline no matter what, even if I was playing to seven people. I wanted people to be there to see me.