Top 120 Al Yankovic Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “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 not they had a good seat?”

— Al Yankovic

102. “Until you came along I never dated anyone this low on the food chain.”

— Al Yankovic

103. “When 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.”

— Al Yankovic

104. “My personal taste doesn’t enter into it a lot when I make my decisions as to what to parody.”

— Al Yankovic

105. “It’s hard to say, I picked one of my favorite articles for the MAD vault. Which is one of the features of the Magazine so they don’t have to actually pay artists or writers to come up with new stuff.”

— Al Yankovic

106. “Some people want to advertise their weirdness, and spread it out, that’s not me.”

— Al Yankovic

107. “I mean, I don’t write for kids.”

— Al Yankovic

108. “I was a huge fan of ‘Mad’ magazine when I was 11, 12, 13 years old. I’d scour used bookstores trying to find back issues, and I’d wait at the newsstand for a new issue to come out. My life revolved around it.”

— Al Yankovic

109. “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

110. “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.”

— Al Yankovic

111. “Sometimes I get, “Have you ever thought about doing real music?” I like to think the music I do is real, it just happens to be funny.”

— Al Yankovic

112. “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

113. “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 a good enough idea for it, I go for it, and if not, then I have to move on.”

— Al Yankovic

114. “I’m free to do what I please, I’m probably not going to do albums. Just because I think releasing tracks as singles is a better way for me to stay topical.”

— Al Yankovic

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

— Al Yankovic

116. “So I’m one of the few celebrities that got to do a repeat performance on ‘The Simpsons,’ which I’m very flattered by.”

— Al Yankovic

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

— Al Yankovic

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

— Al Yankovic

119. “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.”

— Al Yankovic

120. “There aren’t that many superstars around anymore.”

— Al Yankovic

121. “I’m watching the charts every week and hoping something will pop into my head.”

— Al Yankovic

122. “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.”

— Al Yankovic

123. “When I go to my live shows it’s often a multigenerational audience, a family bonding experience.”

— Al Yankovic

124. “In fact, when I come up with an idea for a parody I try to resist the urge to Google the idea to see if someone has done it already because the answer is almost always, “Yes, of course they have, they’ve thought of it!””

— Al Yankovic

125. “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 had, with a lot of groups that use humor, people don’t realize there’s a lot of craft behind the comedy.”

— Al Yankovic

126. “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.”

— Al Yankovic

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

— Al Yankovic

128. “Whenever I do a parody it’s not meant to make you hate anybody’s music really.”

— Al Yankovic

129. “I’m obviously not a rapper, and I don’t have any claims to be one, really.”

— Al Yankovic

130. “Hey, you’ve got weasels on your face.”

— Al Yankovic