128 Quotes by Randy Newman

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

I like the idea of taking a true classic written by a true genius and essentially destroying it!

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.

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.

I like Public Enemy a great deal.

I like science - geography, meteorology, cosmology.

Writers have always liked my stuff, pretty much. That's what I wanted - I think my goal wasn't to get rich and famous, necessarily, though I cared about that. I always thought, "Oh, this could be a hit," or "that will sell records." But the first thing I wanted was that people who knew a lot about music, or had taste-making qualities, they would like my stuff. Writers, people like that.

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

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.