"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."

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Source : "Set List: Randy Newman". Interview with Sam Adams, music.avclub.com. May 31, 2011.

Randy Newman

#Song Quotes #Character Quotes #Writing Quotes

“Remember, a word is an invention, a symbol for an idea. Written text began as an artistic representation of a thought or event.”
“The thing about hip-hop is they always want to classify you as one particular artist, but hip-hop is about going outside the box and expressing yourself however you want to.”
“All of the Mets' road wins against Los Angeles this year have been at Dodger Stadium.”
“We are in an electronic technology age now and it's about time we put away the old stuff.”
“Conceptual relativism is a heady and exotic doctrine, or would be if we could make good sense of it. The trouble is, as so often in philosophy, it is hard to improve intelligibility while retaining the excitement.”

Source : Donald Davidson (2001). “Inquiries Into Truth and Interpretation: Philosophical Essays”, p.183, Oxford University Press
“It's come at last", she thought, "the time when you can no longer stand between your children and heartache.”
“Dictatorship is always merely an aria, never an opera.”
“You win the fight by fighting.”

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