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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. — Randy Newman

I once had dinner with Madonna and I wasn't nervous but within about a minute I found myself talking about underwear. — Randy Newman

God bless the potholes on Memory Lane. — Randy Newman

The best of my songs are more than just a joke. There's something else going on - a character, or it's not just a plain joke. — Randy Newman

Mostly, I don't write overtly personal stuff. — Randy Newman

I like Public Enemy a great deal. — Randy Newman

I'm pretty proud of my film music in general. — Randy Newman

I ain't saying that I'm better than you, but maybe I am. — Randy Newman

I like science - geography, meteorology, cosmology. — Randy Newman

If I were to die tomorrow, I think they'd say Newman 56, composer of the hit song, Short People. Jumped off a mountain today. — Randy Newman

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. — Randy Newman

I have owned and played a Steinway all my life. It's the best Beethoven piano. The best Chopin piano. And the best Ray Charles piano. I like it, too. — Randy Newman

It's very hard to get rich and famous at a young age and handle it well. — Randy Newman

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

It takes a whole lot of medicine for me to pretend I am somebody else. — Randy Newman

Who would want to break into [the music business]? It's like a bank that's already been robbed. — Randy Newman

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. — Randy Newman

We'll have a kid or maybe we'll rent one. He's got to be straight, we don't want a bent one. — Randy Newman

The radio is blastin', someone's knockin' at the door. I'm lookin' at my girlfriend, she's passed out on the floor. — Randy Newman

We don't know our ass from a hole in the ground. — Randy Newman

They don't respect us, so let's surprise them, we'll drop the big one, pulverize them. — Randy Newman

I seen her with the milkman, riding down the street. When you're through with my baby, milkman, send her home to me. — Randy Newman

Most of my songs are about insensitivity of some kind. — Randy Newman

Short people got no reason to live. — Randy Newman

I like to write my lyrics on clay tablets. — Randy Newman

I like Bach. I like Randy Newman. — David Mamet

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? — Randy Newman

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. — Randy Newman

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

I'd like to explain why you fine young men had to be blown apart to defend this mud hole. — Randy Newman

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

Crank up the Beach Boys, Baby. — Randy Newman

But the truth is that L.A. was never entirely real anyway, as Steely Dan, Randy Newman, Warren Zevon, Larry David and Alan Ball all understood. — Barney Hoskyns

I always thought my best album was 'Trouble in Paradise.' I was the happiest with that one. — Randy Newman

People become who they are. Even Beethoven became Beethoven. — Randy Newman

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. — Randy Newman

I am not overlooking any mail. I'm looking at all of it. I even wrote back to the Viagra people. — Randy Newman

College men from L.S.U., went in dumb, come out dumb, too. — Randy Newman

'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. — Randy Newman

I've always had a lot of respect from the people I respected. — Randy Newman

He got drunk last night, kicked Mama down the stairs. But I'm alright, so I don't care. — Randy Newman

I sit here in this chair, I pour myself some whiskey, and watch my troubles vanish into the air. — Randy Newman

I don't remember ever having writer's block. If I sit in there for four hours, I'll usually have something. — Randy Newman

Music-wise, I listen to everything. Leonard Cohen, Randy Newman - I guess I like a lot of '70s music. — Bret McKenzie

But I don't want to sing everything out of the side of my mouth, I want people to understand what I mean. — Randy Newman

Randy Newman seemed like an even worse singer than me. I liked Ray Charles, Levi Stubbs, Jack Jones, Joe Tex, Wilson Pickett. — Donald Fagen

I've often written about places that are totally different from anything I know. Sometimes they turn out better. — Randy Newman

I think the tax cut is ridiculous but so am I. — Randy Newman

Cleveland, city of light! City of magic! — Randy Newman

I am half a man, holy Jesus, what a drag. — Randy Newman

Thank God for the potholes on memory lane. — Randy Newman