Al Yankovic Quotes

I would worry if I wasn't coming up with ideas, if I wasn't inspired.

I am not overly impressed by the great names and reputations of those who might be trying to beat me to an invention. It's their 'ideas' that appeal to me. I am quite correctly described as 'more of a sponge than an inventor

Never hesitate to steal a good idea.

There are always a bunch of ideas floating around and I do the best that I can to try to not do them. The ideas don't go away and, over time, are finally like, "Okay, it's been around so long, I have to get this thing out," and it somehow ends up coming to some version of fruition.

Where do ideas come from? Ideas come from other ideas.

Creativity - like human life itself - begins in darkness... bright ideas are preceded by a gestation period that is interior, murky, and completely necessary.

When the poet Paul Valery once asked Albert Einstein if he kept a notebook to record his ideas, Einstein looked at him with mild but genuine surprise. "Oh, that's not necessary," he replied . "It's so seldom I have one.

Usually, the best ideas come from other people's good ideas, which then, after a short gestation period, become your ideas.

Above all, do not talk yourself out of good ideas by trying to expound them at haphazard meetings.

I can't really say - if I've run out of ideas until I've had my next set of ideas.

I think it's better to have ideas.

Do as many ideas as possible. The right idea will pick you.

"Where do you get your ideas?" That's the one question I'm genuinely sick of being asked, and also genuinely fascinated by. What fascinates me is not that people ask the question, but what kind of answer are they really looking for? Because if I tell them the truth, which is "I make them up," they seem very disappointed. They want to know about the trek I do once a year to the mountain.

I realised all the good ideas were taken before I was even born.

I feel like I have a lot of novel ideas, but they often come up while I'm already in the process of working on a book. You have to watch out with the slutty new idea.

A classic is a classic for a reason. Let's try to create new classics. The idea of repeating ourselves drives me a little crazy.

Pouring out ideas is better for creativity than doling them out by the teaspoon.

You don't have a really good idea until you combine two little ideas.

...new ideas are merely several old thoughts that occur at the exact same time.

Nobody has a monopoly on good ideas

Every piece of technology, every piece of art, basically everything manmade comes from an idea.

Creativity has a lot to do with the main idea. Inspiration is what comes when you are dealing with the idea. But inspiration won't invite what's not there to begin with.

The person with just one good idea is a thousand times better off than the person with no good ideas.

Malander had an idea and was trying to work it out, but it would take him time. Sometimes people never saw things clearly until it was too late and they no longer had the strength to start again. Or else they forgot their idea along the way and didn't even realise that they forgotten.