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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.
Randy Newman
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Randy Newman
Age: 80
Born: 1943
Born: November 28
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Randall Stuart Newman
Randall S. Newman
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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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I like Public Enemy a great deal.
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Things aren't black and white in the world.
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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 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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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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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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Most of my songs are about insensitivity of some kind.
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I seen her with the milkman, riding down the street. When you're through with my baby, milkman, send her home to me.
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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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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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I like to write my lyrics on clay tablets.
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It's a big surprise to me about America that there are 40 million people prepared to vote for (Trump). They wouldn't want him as a friend. No matter who you are, you wouldn't want him on your bowling team or to have dinner with him or anything. They would recognize it immediately in a guy. A big blowhard, braggart.
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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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Crank up the Beach Boys, Baby.
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Short people got no reason to live.
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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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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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They don't respect us, so let's surprise them, we'll drop the big one, pulverize them.
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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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