128 Quotes by Randy Newman

I’d like to explain why you fine young men had to be blown apart to defend this mud hole.

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?

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

I think in most cases, unless you’re writing about a character who is garrulous, you say what you’ve got to say and then get out. Those little conjunctions, those little turnaround words help you do it. That’s the way I like to write: I get rid of things rather than add them.

I always thought my best album was ‘Trouble in Paradise.’ I was the happiest with that one.

If you have a kid and you try irony out on them, they don’t get it at 7, 8 years old. You can’t really hide the Internet from kids. It worries me some particularly because I’ve done Disney and Pixar stuff.

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.

Don’t forget to bring that little blonde haired girl along. You know the one, love to watch her jump up and down.

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.