Eras Quote by Leonard Slatkin

I've always wanted to work with Paul Newman. I had a couple opportunities in the past, and I didn't take advantage of it, so…

— Ed Harris

Randy Newman seemed like an even worse singer than me. I liked Ray Charles, Levi Stubbs, Jack Jones, Joe Tex, Wilson Pickett.

— Donald Fagen

Growing up, Paul Newman seemed like the ultimate manly actor. And then, I got to work with him and we became friends, so that…

— Dermot Mulroney

All of them had so much to offer us as far as, you know, knowledge in the music industry, and especially Randy and Paula…

— Ruben Studdard

I like Bach. I like Randy Newman.

— David Mamet

Newman and I were friends. We were great teammates, and he needs to check his trophy case on that Daytona 500 trophy I helped…

— Kurt Busch

I didn't really know you could make a living in songwriting. I was just very fortunate to have the opportunity to play a few…

— Sam Hunt

Billy [Corgan] and I used to spend quite a lot of time together in Los Angeles, when I first moved there.

— Billy Corgan

My parents were both very musically inclined, they were both songwriters and musicians, so we grew up in the house singing music together, and…

— Jesse McCartney

I grew up in Southern California, so there is just a part of me that is a Hollywood rocker.

— Scott Borchetta

Austin is a big music town, so growing up, I had a lot of local heroes. Toni Price I was very, very into; she…

— Lauren Worsham

Back in the early '90s, I started going to Nashville to do a lot of co-writes. One of the first people I met there…

— John Oates