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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.

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
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Randall Stuart Newman
Randall S. Newman
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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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You keep wondering whether people will see that Barack Obama is a liar and not very bright.
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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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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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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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It's very hard to get rich and famous at a young age and handle it well.
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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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College men from L.S.U., went in dumb, come out dumb, too.
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I like Public Enemy a great deal.
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I've always had a lot of respect from the people I respected.
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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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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'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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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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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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They don't respect us, so let's surprise them, we'll drop the big one, pulverize them.
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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.
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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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Short people got no reason to live.
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