Randy Newman
Randy Newman
Randall Stuart "Randy" Newmanis an American singer-songwriter, arranger, composer, and pianist who is known for his distinctive voice, mordantpop songs, and for film scores...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionRock Singer
Date of Birth28 November 1943
CityLos Angeles, CA
CountryUnited States of America
branch chances giving humiliated music thank
I don't want your pity. I want to thank first of all the music branch for giving me so many chances to be humiliated over the years.
irritation people eccentric
My music has a high irritation factor. I`ve always tried to say something. Eccentric lyrics about eccentric people. Often it was is joke. But I would plead guilty on the grounds that I prefer eccetricity to the bland.
age rich young
It's very hard to get rich and famous at a young age and handle it well.
mean people want
But I don't want to sing everything out of the side of my mouth, I want people to understand what I mean.
paradise albums trouble
I always thought my best album was 'Trouble in Paradise.' I was the happiest with that one.
block four remember
I don't remember ever having writer's block. If I sit in there for four hours, I'll usually have something.
thinking littles remember
If we'd had another carefree 70s, 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.
song years consistency
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.
cities light magic
Cleveland, city of light! City of magic!
film-music proud film
I'm pretty proud of my film music in general.
writing tablets clay
I like to write my lyrics on clay tablets.
air alcohol drug
I sit here in this chair, I pour myself some whiskey, and watch my troubles vanish into the air.
song kind insensitivity
Most of my songs are about insensitivity of some kind.
kids years worry
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.