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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

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Randy Newman
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: November 28
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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.
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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.
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They don't respect us, so let's surprise them, we'll drop the big one, pulverize them.
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You keep wondering whether people will see that Barack Obama is a liar and not very bright.
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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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Most of my songs are about insensitivity of some kind.
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I'd like to explain why you fine young men had to be blown apart to defend this mud hole.
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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.
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This is the Republican Party who has run against Russia for 80 years and you know, (Trump) hasn't mentioned (Putin) except in a positive way.
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Short people got no reason to live.
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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 realized that, instead of moving people closer to a salvation decision, an answer can push them further away. Rather than engaging their minds or urging them to consider an alternative perspective, an answer can give them ammunition for future attacks against the gospel.
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Who would want to break into [the music business]? It's like a bank that's already been robbed.
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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?
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I like the idea of taking a true classic written by a true genius and essentially destroying it!
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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.
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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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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.
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We don't know our ass from a hole in the ground.
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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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