Top 83 Quotes & Sayings by Randy Newman - Page 2

In England, in France, in no other country would a black man have a chance to get elected. There's no two ways about it. Our country [USA] has been better about dealing with immigration and people who are different from each other than any other country in the world, that I know of.

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

This is the Republican Party who has run against Russia for 80 years and you know, (Trump) hasn't mentioned (Putin) except in a positive way.

To get nominated by the Republican Party you've got to be pretty reactionary, really.

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

The easiest thing I do is assignment songs. They tell me what they need me to write. I can do that fairly quickly. Writing for an orchestra is difficult. Writing songs [on your own] is most difficult of all. Though [writing for] the orchestra is close.

Crank up the Beach Boys, Baby.

Short people got no reason to live.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Cleveland, city of light! City of magic!

I like to write my lyrics on clay tablets.

I am half a man, holy Jesus, what a drag.

There's a million white people better qualified than a black man to be president of America.

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

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?

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

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

Still, it's clear that there are lots of people out there who are uncomfortable [about racism]. The Civil War was a long time ago but there are aspects of it that remain unsettled.