Al Yankovic Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“My hobbies just sort of gradually became my vocation.”

“I've learned how to use my spam filter pretty effectively.”

“People never ask people doing serious music, 'Do you ever think about doing funny music?'”

“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, and then I'll try and arrange them in a way that they would tell a semi-cohesive story.”

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

“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.”

“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 has to work on its own merit.”

“There aren't that many superstars around anymore.”

“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.”

“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.”