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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.”
-- Randy Newman

#People #Mind #Lasts
“If you have a kid and you try irony out on them, they don't get it at 7, 8 years old. You can't really hide the Internet from kids. It worries me some particularly because I've done Disney and Pixar stuff.”
-- Randy Newman

#Kids #Years #Worry
“The radio is blastin', someone's knockin' at the door. I'm lookin' at my girlfriend, she's passed out on the floor.”
-- Randy Newman

#Girlfriend #Doors #Alcohol
“Still, it's clear that there are lots of people out there who are uncomfortable [about racism]. The Civil War was a long time ago but there are aspects of it that remain unsettled,”
-- Randy Newman

#War #Racism #People
“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
“In England, in France, in no other country would a black man have a chance to get elected. There's no two ways about it. Our country [USA] has been better about dealing with immigration and people who are different from each other than any other country in the world, that I know of.”
-- Randy Newman

#Country #Men #Usa
“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
“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

#Character #Writing #Thinking
“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.”
-- Randy Newman

#Thinking #Goal #People
“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
“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
“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.”
-- Randy Newman

#Sleep #Simple #Trying
“I've often written about places that are totally different from anything I know. Sometimes they turn out better.”
-- Randy Newman

#Different #Sometimes #Turns
“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 #Character #Writing
“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
“And the Lord said: I burn down your cities - how blind you must be. I take from you your children, and you say how blessed are we. You all must be crazy to put your faith in me. That's why I love mankind.”
-- Randy Newman

#Children #Crazy #Blessed
“I ain't saying that I'm better than you, but maybe I am.”
-- Randy Newman

#Egotism
“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
“He got drunk last night, kicked Mama down the stairs. But I'm alright, so I don't care.”
-- Randy Newman

#Family #Night #Drunk
“Crank up the Beach Boys, Baby.”
-- Randy Newman

#Baby #Beach #Boys
“Short people got no reason to live.”
-- Randy Newman

#People #Reason #Controversy
“It takes a whole lot of medicine for me to pretend I am somebody else.”
-- Randy Newman

#Medicine #Alcohol #Drug
“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
“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 #Watches #Littles
“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
“I'd like to explain why you fine young men had to be blown apart to defend this mud hole.”
-- Randy Newman

#Men #Mud #Politics
“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
“College men from L.S.U., went in dumb, come out dumb, too.”
-- Randy Newman

#Education #Men #College
“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
“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 #Paper #Stuff

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