Randy Newman Quotes - Page 3

Short people got no reason to live.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

I seen her with the milkman, riding down the street. When you're through with my baby, milkman, send her home to me.

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

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

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.

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.

Cleveland, city of light! City of magic!

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

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

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.

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

Crank up the Beach Boys, Baby.

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?

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.

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

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

I like Public Enemy a great deal.

I like science - geography, meteorology, cosmology.

Mostly, I don't write overtly personal stuff.