Randy Newman Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• 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

• 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 out. Those little conjunctions, those little turnaround words help you do it. That's the way I like to write: I get rid of things rather than add them.

  Randy Newman

  Writing, Character, Thinking

  Interview with Joshua Klein, pitchfork.com. October 27, 2008.

• I'm interested in geography and weather and things like that, and if you don't write love songs, you've gotta go somewhere. I wrote a lot about places because that's what else there was. I had to stop myself from writing more of them.

  Randy Newman

  Song, Writing, Geography

  Source: www.avclub.com

• Mostly, I don't write overtly personal stuff.

  Randy Newman

  Writing, Stuff, Personal Stuff

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

• More of my songs are intended to be funny than almost anyone else. Sometimes maybe it cheers me up a bit. I've got a distance from it. Sometimes what I'm writing is more important to me than the rest of my life. It's more important to me that I'm writing well than anything else.

  Randy Newman

  Song, Cheer, Distance

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I like to write my lyrics on clay tablets.

  Randy Newman

  Writing, Clay, Tablets

• I like the performing. And interviews, even. And the stuff that's not sitting in a room by yourself with empty paper. But I never loved writing, to tell you the truth.

  Randy Newman

  Writing, Sitting, Paper

• Sometimes what I'm writing is more important to me than the rest of my life. It's more important to me that I'm writing well than anything else.

  Randy Newman

  Writing, Important, Sometimes

  Source: www.avclub.com

• 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.

  Randy Newman

  Song, Writing, Character

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

• The easiest thing I do is assignment songs. They tell me what they need me to write. I can do that fairly quickly. Writing for an orchestra is difficult. Writing songs [on your own] is most difficult of all. Though [writing for] the orchestra is close.

  Randy Newman

  Song, Writing, Needs

  Interview with Joshua Klein, pitchfork.com. October 27, 2008.

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