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American singer-songwriter, Birth: 28-11-1943 Randy Newman Quotes
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If getting on the radio was a major motivation, I'd be one of the worst writers of all time. I admire people who do it, and I think it's a nice way to work, but I try to do the best I can and write what I like. I don't worry about it.
Randy Newman

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Most of my songs are about insensitivity of some kind.
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If we'd had another carefree 70s, I'd have been dead. It was a little too carefree, you know? I don't know how carefree they were for me, I think I was worried then, I can't remember what about.
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I am not overlooking any mail. I'm looking at all of it. I even wrote back to the Viagra people.
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I'm pretty proud of my film music in general.
Randy Newman

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But if you're doing something, show up everyday, and something good might happen - it's not going to happen if you don't show up.
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God bless the potholes on Memory Lane.
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Learn about the world, the way it works, any kind of science and anthropology, it's really an interesting place we live in. Evolution is a really fantastic idea, even more than the idea of God I think.
Randy Newman

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I like science - geography, meteorology, cosmology.
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Short people got no reason to live.
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You've got troubles, I've got 'em too. There isn't anything I wouldn't do for you. We'll stick together to see it through cause you've got a friend in me.
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People become who they are. Even Beethoven became Beethoven.
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You keep wondering whether people will see that Barack Obama is a liar and not very bright.
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It's funny; people get so doctrinaire about music. It should be the last thing you don't have an open mind about.
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I've always had a lot of respect from the people I respected.
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It's a big surprise to me about America that there are 40 million people prepared to vote for (Trump). They wouldn't want him as a friend. No matter who you are, you wouldn't want him on your bowling team or to have dinner with him or anything. They would recognize it immediately in a guy. A big blowhard, braggart.
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I sit here in this chair, I pour myself some whiskey, and watch my troubles vanish into the air.
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They don't respect us, so let's surprise them, we'll drop the big one, pulverize them.
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I'm dreaming of a white president. Just like the ones we've always had. A real live white man. Who knows the score, how to handle money or start a war. Wouldn't even have to tell me what we were fighting for. He'd be the right man, if he were a white man.
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I ain't saying that I'm better than you, but maybe I am.
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The radio is blastin', someone's knockin' at the door. I'm lookin' at my girlfriend, she's passed out on the floor.
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I like the idea of taking a true classic written by a true genius and essentially destroying it!
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I started recording because I was always complaining about the records that I was getting of my songs. At least if I did them and messed them up, I wouldn't have anyone else to blame.
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I think the tax cut is ridiculous but so am I.
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I once had dinner with Madonna and I wasn't nervous but within about a minute I found myself talking about underwear.
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And the Lord said: I burn down your cities - how blind you must be. I take from you your children, and you say how blessed are we. You all must be crazy to put your faith in me. That's why I love mankind.
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"Rednecks" always made me nervous to play, but I'm glad I wrote it and I continue to play it. It's just that the language is so rough.
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My music has a high irritation factor. I`ve always tried to say something. Eccentric lyrics about eccentric people. Often it was is joke. But I would plead guilty on the grounds that I prefer eccetricity to the bland.
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Cleveland, city of light! City of magic!
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More of my songs are intended to be funny than almost anyone else. Sometimes maybe it cheers me up a bit. I've got a distance from it. Sometimes what I'm writing is more important to me than the rest of my life. It's more important to me that I'm writing well than anything else.
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I have owned and played a Steinway all my life. It's the best Beethoven piano. The best Chopin piano. And the best Ray Charles piano. I like it, too.
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Things aren't black and white in the world.
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You know, they say you can reduce genius to someone who spent 10,000 hours trying to get good at something. I'm not claiming either one of those. I haven't done anything for 10,000 hours but sleep. But you do stuff enough, you get better at it. Usually it's a simple thing like that. Essentially, a brainless endeavor.
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I've written about a lot of different things, but the whole idea of writing for another character is unusual for pop music... Most of the repertory is love songs, and most of mine isn't. I don't know if that's a mental defect, or shyness, or what.
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Crank up the Beach Boys, Baby.
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I've worked with a band, and it's nice to have someone to travel around with, but I didn't like it as well on stage.
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College men from L.S.U., went in dumb, come out dumb, too.
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I've written a song for Prince. I never showed it to Prince, but just to see if I could do it. At the time, when I sort of knew him, he was recording a song a day. I wondered if I could do that. So I wrote it.
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It takes a whole lot of medicine for me to pretend I am somebody else.
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To get nominated by the Republican Party you've got to be pretty reactionary, really.
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I am half a man, holy Jesus, what a drag.
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Don't forget to bring that little blonde haired girl along. You know the one, love to watch her jump up and down.
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What I'm most pleased about is that there's no particular decline. The songs I wrote 40 years ago are no worse and no better - there's a consistency.
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I'd like to explain why you fine young men had to be blown apart to defend this mud hole.
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Stay away from drugs. They're not worth it. I've tried, but there's none of them that's worth it.
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I like the performing. And interviews, even. And the stuff that's not sitting in a room by yourself with empty paper. But I never loved writing, to tell you the truth.
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The easiest thing I do is assignment songs. They tell me what they need me to write. I can do that fairly quickly. Writing for an orchestra is difficult. Writing songs [on your own] is most difficult of all. Though [writing for] the orchestra is close.
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This one guy's wife is such a pretty brown thing, that I'm liable to give her a poke or two. Whaddaya think of that?
Randy Newman

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We'll have a kid or maybe we'll rent one. He's got to be straight, we don't want a bent one.
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He got drunk last night, kicked Mama down the stairs. But I'm alright, so I don't care.
Randy Newman