Randy Newman Quotes - Page 3

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• Short people got no reason to live.

  Randy Newman

  People, Reason, Controversy

  Song: Short People, Album: Little Criminals

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• 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, when I sort of knew him, he was recording a song a day. I wondered if I could do that. So I wrote it.

  Randy Newman

  Song, If I Could, Written

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

  Randy Newman

  Medicine, Alcohol, Drug

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• I ain't saying that I'm better than you, but maybe I am.

  Randy Newman

  Egotism, Better Than You

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• To get nominated by the Republican Party you've got to be pretty reactionary, really.

  Randy Newman

  Party, Republican, Republican Party

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• Don't forget to bring that little blonde haired girl along. You know the one, love to watch her jump up and down.

  Randy Newman

  Girl, Blonde, Watches

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• I am half a man, holy Jesus, what a drag.

  Randy Newman

  Jesus, Men, Half

  Song: Half a Man, Album: Born Again

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• 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

  Baby, Home, Infidelity

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• We'll have a kid or maybe we'll rent one. He's got to be straight, we don't want a bent one.

  Randy Newman

  Family, Kids, Want

  Song: Love Story

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• He got drunk last night, kicked Mama down the stairs. But I'm alright, so I don't care.

  Randy Newman

  Family, Night, Drunk

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• If we'd had another carefree 70s, I'd have been dead. It was a little too carefree, you know? I don't know how carefree they were for me, I think I was worried then, I can't remember what about.

  Randy Newman

  Thinking, Littles, Remember

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• What I'm most pleased about is that there's no particular decline. The songs I wrote 40 years ago are no worse and no better - there's a consistency.

  Randy Newman

  Song, Years, Consistency

  "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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• Cleveland, city of light! City of magic!

  Randy Newman

  Light, Cities, Magic

  Song: Burn On, Album: Sail Away

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• Stay away from drugs. They're not worth it. I've tried, but there's none of them that's worth it.

  Randy Newman

  Drug, Not Worth It, Worth It

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

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• I'd like to explain why you fine young men had to be blown apart to defend this mud hole.

  Randy Newman

  Men, Politics, Mud

  Song: Song for the Dead

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• 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

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• College men from L.S.U., went in dumb, come out dumb, too.

  Randy Newman

  Education, College, Men

  "Rock cake" by John Harris, www.theguardian.com. April 27, 2007.

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• Crank up the Beach Boys, Baby.

  Randy Newman

  Baby, Beach, Boys

  Song: I Love L.A

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• This one guy's wife is such a pretty brown thing, that I'm liable to give her a poke or two. Whaddaya think of that?

  Randy Newman

  Thinking, Two, Giving

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• 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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• I am not overlooking any mail. I'm looking at all of it. I even wrote back to the Viagra people.

  Randy Newman

  People, Viagra, Mail

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• I think the tax cut is ridiculous but so am I.

  Randy Newman

  Cutting, Thinking, Ridiculous

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• I like Public Enemy a great deal.

  Randy Newman

  Enemy, Public Enemies, Deals

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• I like science - geography, meteorology, cosmology.

  Randy Newman

  Meteorology, Geography, Cosmology

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• 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.

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