Assignments Quote by Randy Newman

I think in most cases, unless you're writing about a character who is garrulous, you say what you've got to say and then get…

— Randy Newman

Thank God for the potholes on memory lane.

— Randy Newman

The best of my songs are more than just a joke. There's something else going on - a character, or it's not just a…

— Randy Newman

Cleveland, city of light! City of magic!

— Randy Newman

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…

— Randy Newman

I sit here in this chair, I pour myself some whiskey, and watch my troubles vanish into the air.

— Randy Newman

I seen her with the milkman, riding down the street. When you're through with my baby, milkman, send her home to me.

— Randy Newman

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.

— Randy Newman

I like science - geography, meteorology, cosmology.

— Randy Newman

It takes a whole lot of medicine for me to pretend I am somebody else.

— Randy Newman

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,…

— Randy Newman

Some fools in the desert with nothing to do...invented me, and they invented you. And other fools keep it all going and growing. Everybody,…

— Randy Newman