Al Yankovic Quotes

I think pop culture has always influenced society.

I find America falling in love with a TV show flattering and interesting, but at the same time a little sad.

Pop culture is not about depth. It's about marketing, supply and demand, consumerism.

In Japan, Australia, and England there is such a strong youth culture.

What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish.

I think if you study people in the street today, you do sometimes feel that they have taken their behavior and their language from things that they have seen rather than read - from soap operas and movies and so on.

Modern culture is a tremendous force.

Young people everywhere have been allowed to choose between love and a garbage disposal unit. Everywhere they have chosen the garbage disposal unit.

For better or worse, in the 21st century, reality shows are the variety show.

We're into this barrage of pop culture - you know, TV, movies, the Internet. We become creatures that we've made up, made of certain different flotsam from pop culture and certain different personas that are in style.

Any trend that is developed too fast and is disposed right away is not going to have a lasting impression on the culture, you know?

Fame is everywhere; the 15 minutes are now the dominant themes of our times.

I've sort of closed my mind off to reality shows: I just don't watch them, don't care about them, don't know who the characters are, but they're all in general usage.

I think music follows the trends of the collective conscious.

Sometimes I think that our culture lives in its soundbites.

The modern dogma is comfort at any cost.

In the past, modeling influences were largely confined to the styles of behavior and social practices in one's immediate community. The advent of television vastly expanded the range of models to which members of society are exposed day in and day out.

The idea that things should last just doesn't fit the economic model anymore.

I don't understand the public, but I do believe the public is oversold and underrated every day. Give the people something interesting, something to chew on, I say.

Everything is social media nowadays, everything is sports and entertainment.

I don't even know what is popular.

Popular culture is inescapable in the U.S. Why not use it?

My songs are like Bic razors. For fun, for modern consumption. You listen to it, like it, discard it, then on to the next. Disposable pop.

For me as an artist, pop culture has so much power and influences society on a regular basis - I see it in the kids; I see it in everyone that I encounter. Everyone is influenced by pop culture whether we want to be or not.

I was never interested in reality shows or dance shows, as they have become so common.