Randy Newman Quotes

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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…
• 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,…
• 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…
• I am not overlooking any mail. I'm looking at all of it. I even wrote back to the Viagra people.
• I realized that, instead of moving people closer to a salvation decision, an answer can push them further away. Rather than engaging their minds or…
• God bless the potholes on Memory Lane.
• If I were to die tomorrow, I think they'd say Newman 56, composer of the hit song, Short People. Jumped off a mountain today.
• I once had dinner with Madonna and I wasn't nervous but within about a minute I found myself talking about underwear.
• I think the tax cut is ridiculous but so am I.
• We don't know our ass from a hole in the ground.
• Who would want to break into [the music business]? It's like a bank that's already been robbed.
• I like the idea of taking a true classic written by a true genius and essentially destroying it!
• 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.
• I like Public Enemy a great deal.
• It's funny; people get so doctrinaire about music. It should be the last thing you don't have an open mind about.
• I like science - geography, meteorology, cosmology.
• Mostly, I don't write overtly personal stuff.
• Most of my songs are about insensitivity of some kind.
• It's very hard to get rich and famous at a young age and handle it well.
• But I don't want to sing everything out of the side of my mouth, I want people to understand what I mean.

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