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I like the idea of taking a true classic written by a true genius and essentially destroying it!

Randy Newman

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Randy Newman
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: November 28
Composer
Conductor
Film Score Composer
Journalist
Musician
Pianist
Screenwriter
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
LA
California
Randall Stuart Newman
Randall S. Newman
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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.
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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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I've always had a lot of respect from the people I respected.
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Crank up the Beach Boys, Baby.
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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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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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You keep wondering whether people will see that Barack Obama is a liar and not very bright.
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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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It takes a whole lot of medicine for me to pretend I am somebody else.
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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'm dreaming of a white president. Just like the ones we've always had. A real live white man. Who knows the score, how to handle money or start a war. Wouldn't even have to tell me what we were fighting for. He'd be the right man, if he were a white man.
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The radio is blastin', someone's knockin' at the door. I'm lookin' at my girlfriend, she's passed out on the floor.
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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.
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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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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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It's very hard to get rich and famous at a young age and handle it well.
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Most of my songs are about insensitivity of some kind.
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I hate having to wait. I've got the thing done. I just want to see what happens.
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