Quotes by Randy Newman

About Randy Newman:

Randall Stuart is an American singer-songwriter, arranger, composer, and pianist who is known for his distinctive voice, mordant (and often satirical) pop songs, and for film scores.
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It's very hard to get rich and famous at a young age and handle it well.

Randy Newman

I always thought my best album was 'Trouble in Paradise.' I was the happiest with that one.

Randy Newman

I think the tax cut is ridiculous but so am I.

Randy Newman

I am not overlooking any mail. I'm looking at all of it. I even wrote back to the Viagra people.

Randy Newman

I once had dinner with Madonna and I wasn't nervous but within about a minute I found myself talking about underwear.

Randy Newman

If we'd had another carefree 70's, 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.

Randy Newman

I like the idea of taking a true classic written by a true genius and destroying it essentially! I like the idea of bringing it down to earth a bit - and even a bit lower than that.

Randy Newman

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.

Randy Newman

Stay away from drugs. They're not worth it. I've tried, but there's none of them that's worth it.

Randy Newman

I don't remember ever having writer's block. If I sit in there for four hours, I'll usually have something.

Randy Newman

Most of my songs are about insensitivity of some kind.

Randy Newman

But I don't want to sing everything out of the side of my mouth, I want people to understand what I mean.

Randy Newman

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.

Randy Newman

Mostly, I don't write overtly personal stuff.

Randy Newman

'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.

Randy Newman

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

Thank God for the potholes on memory lane.

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I like Public Enemy a great deal.

Randy Newman

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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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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Author Bio

  • NameRandy Newman
  • DescriptionAmerican singer-songwriter
  • BornNovember 28, 1943
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionSinger-songwriter; Singer; Composer; Conductor; Musician
  • AwardsAnnie Award