Al Yankovic Quotes

With experience, you improve. I'm a better player now, more complete than I was when I was player of the year.

This union may never be perfect, but generation after generation has shown that it can always be perfected.

I think the long-term goal is to continue to grow as people and as a unit, individually and together, and hopefully continue to keep making records that are better every time, because if you're not moving forward, you're either standing still or regressing.

My process has changed over the years. I'd say it has been enhanced.

A lot of the qualities in 'Killing and Dying' is sort of a response to work I'd done previously. I wanted to push myself in some different directions.

There is always room to improve.

Everything I do is about improvement.

There are always things we can still learn to perfect.

Every time I make a new album, I get better and better.

There's always ways to improve.

I think there is always room for improvement.

I just try to improve every series.

As I get older and more mature, my artwork changes accordingly.

There is always room for improvement in our game.

There's always room for improvement.

I guess when there is room to improve, and where there is the desire to improve, improvement comes.

There's always room for improvement no matter what.

As I wrote more I became more critical of myself and I think that you have to be your harshest judge. I don't ever believe that what I write is my best work. I always think that I can hone it. I can always think that I can make it a little bit better.

What makes us fully human is the relentless quest for making things a little bit better.

When you create stuff, you're always going to be progressing and where you're at a year down the line, as the creator, it's always going to feel immature. You're going to notice the flaws and the things that you've learned in that year aren't going to be there. So, I think it's important to see stuff as a capture of time - that's what I was doing at that time - and not be ashamed of it. That's how I try to approach music.

Pretty much the only goal I've had since the beginning, which I still have, is just to get better, work hard, focus, and everything else will just be a bonus. As long as I'm satisfied, and I think we're getting better with every song compared to the last, then I'm satisfied and that's all I want. If we don't achieve that, then I'll be disappointed.

To improve is to change.

A man's work is in danger of deteriorating when he thinks he has found the one best formula for doing it. If he thinks that, he is likely to feel that all he needs is merely to go on repeating himself . . . so long as a person is searching for better ways of doing his work, he is fairly safe.

Knowledge and productivity are like compound interest. The more you know, the more you learn; the more you learn, the more you can do; the more you can do, the more the opportunity. I don't want to give you a rate, but it is a very high rate. Given two people with exactly the same ability, the one person who manages day in and day out to get in one more hour of thinking will be tremendously more productive over a lifetime.

Don't try to make comparisons between your own pictures. Forget what you have done and think only of making the best of what you are doing.