Words matter. These are the best Randy Newman Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
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.
I once had dinner with Madonna and I wasn’t nervous but within about a minute I found myself talking about underwear.
But I don’t want to sing everything out of the side of my mouth, I want people to understand what I mean.
I like science – geography, meteorology, cosmology.
I’ve worked with a band, and it’s nice to have someone to travel around with, but I didn’t like it as well on stage.
But if you’re doing something, show up everyday, and something good might happen – it’s not going to happen if you don’t show up.
If we’d had another carefree 70’s, 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.
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.
I am not overlooking any mail. I’m looking at all of it. I even wrote back to the Viagra people.
I don’t remember ever having writer’s block. If I sit in there for four hours, I’ll usually have something.
It’s very hard to get rich and famous at a young age and handle it well.
My music has a high irritation factor. I’ve always tried to say something. Eccentric lyrics about eccentric people. Often it was a joke. But I would plead guilty on the grounds that I prefer eccentricity to the bland.
Most of my songs are about insensitivity of some kind.
Stay away from drugs. They’re not worth it. I’ve tried, but there’s none of them that’s worth it.
