Randy Newman Quotes
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I always thought my best album was 'Trouble in Paradise.' I was the happiest with that one.
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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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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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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.
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I'm pretty proud of my film music in general.
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Mostly, I don't write overtly personal stuff.
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Thank God for the potholes on memory lane.
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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 a joke. But I would plead guilty on the grounds that I prefer eccentricity to the bland.
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I think the tax cut is ridiculous but so am I.
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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.
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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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Stay away from drugs. They're not worth it. I've tried, but there's none of them that's worth it.
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I started recording because I was always complaining about the records that I was getting of my songs. At least if I did them and messed them up, I wouldn't have anyone else to blame.
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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.
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If we'd had another carefree 70's, 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.
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I like Public Enemy a great deal.
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It's very hard to get rich and famous at a young age and handle it well.
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'Rednecks' always made me nervous to play, but I'm glad I wrote it and I continue to play it. It's just that the language is so rough.
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I've always had a lot of respect from the people I respected.
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I like science - geography, meteorology, cosmology.
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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.
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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.
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I've worked with a band, and it's nice to have someone to travel around with, but I didn't like it as well on stage.
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I don't remember ever having writer's block. If I sit in there for four hours, I'll usually have something.