Randy Newman Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“I'm pretty proud of my film music in general.”

“It's funny; people get so doctrinaire about music. It should be the last thing you don't have an open mind about.”

“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.”

“I think the tax cut is ridiculous but so am I.”

“I've always had a lot of respect from the people I respected.”

“What I'm most pleased about is that there's no particular decline. The songs I wrote 40 years ago are no worse and no better - there's a consistency.”

“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'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.”

“Stay away from drugs. They're not worth it. I've tried, but there's none of them that's worth it.”

“I like the idea of taking a true classic written by a true genius and destroying it essentially! I like the idea of bringing it down to earth a bit - and even a bit lower than that.”