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

  Motivation, Nice, Writing

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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.

  Randy Newman

  Everyday, Might, Shows

  "My Life Is Good: Chatting With Randy Newman". Interview with Mike Ragogna, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 30, 2011.

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• God bless the potholes on Memory Lane.

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  Memories, God Bless, Lanes

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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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  Together, Causes, Sticks

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• People become who they are. Even Beethoven became Beethoven.

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  People

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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.

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  Thinking, Ideas, Interesting

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• Most of my songs are about insensitivity of some kind.

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  Song, Kind, Insensitivity

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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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  Liars, People, Wonder

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• Writers have always liked my stuff, pretty much. That's what I wanted - I think my goal wasn't to get rich and famous, necessarily, though I cared about that. I always thought, "Oh, this could be a hit," or "that will sell records." But the first thing I wanted was that people who knew a lot about music, or had taste-making qualities, they would like my stuff. Writers, people like that.

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  Thinking, People, Goal

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I've always had a lot of respect from the people I respected.

  Randy Newman

  People

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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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  People, Mind, Lasts

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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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  Team, America, People

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• Some day you do something where you use everything you know. You don't do it ostentatiously where you see the workings going on. But some day, if you're lucky, that will happen.

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  Lucky, Use, Happens

  "Randy Newman's first new song in years is about bare-chested Vladimir Putin". Interview with Geoff Edgers, www.chicagotribune.com. October 10, 2016.

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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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  Politics, Surprise, Bigs

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

  Randy Newman

  Air, Alcohol, Drug

  Song: Rollin', Album: Good Old Boys

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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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  Sleep, Simple, Get Better

  "Set List: Randy Newman". Interview with Sam Adams, music.avclub.com. May 31, 2011.

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• The belief in the '70s was that music was changing the world. I never believed that it had that great an effect. The effect Madonna had on fashion and sort of mores of young girls was a bigger deal than anything Dylan may have said, even.

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  Girl, Fashion, World

  "Randy Newman's first new song in years is about bare-chested Vladimir Putin". Interview with Geoff Edgers, www.chicagotribune.com. October 10, 2016.

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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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  Song, Writing, Character

  "Set List: Randy Newman". Interview with Sam Adams, music.avclub.com. May 31, 2011.

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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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  Irritation, People, Eccentric

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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 plain joke.

  Randy Newman

  Song, Character, Jokes

  Source: www.avclub.com

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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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  Dream, White, President

  "I'm Dreaming of a White President". Poem by Randy Newman, www.theguardian.com. 2012.

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• 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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  Mean, People, Mouths

  "Randy Newman: 'I don't want to sing everything out of the side of my mouth'" by Tim Lewis, www.theguardian.com. May 14, 2011.

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• I like the idea of taking a true classic written by a true genius and essentially destroying it!

  Randy Newman

  Ideas, Genius, Classic

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• Asia's crowded and Europe's too old, Africa is far too hot and Canada's too cold. And South America stole our name, let's drop the big one.

  Randy Newman

  Europe, Names, America

  Song: Political Science

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• Who would want to break into [the music business]? It's like a bank that's already been robbed.

  Randy Newman

  Want, Break, Music Business

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