Randy Newman - biography

“If we’d had another carefree 70’s, 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.”

“I once had dinner with Madonna and I wasn’t nervous but within about a minute I found myself talking about underwear.”

“I like the idea of taking a true classic written by a true genius and destroying it essentially!  I like the idea of bringing it down to earth a bit - and even a bit lower than that.”

“Learn about the world, the way it works, any kind of science and anthropology, it’s really an interesting place we live in.  Evolution is a really fantastic idea, even more than the idea of God I think.”

“I am not overlooking any mail.  I’m looking at all of it.  I even wrote back to the Viagra people.”

“I started recording because I was always complaining about the records that I was getting of my songs.  At least if I did them and messed them up, I wouldn’t have anyone else to blame.”

“I think the tax cut is ridiculous but so am I.”

“Stay away from drugs.  They’re not worth it.  I’ve tried, but there’s none of them that’s worth it.”

Randy Newman composed the score for the following films:
Cold Turkey (1971)
Ragtime (1981)
The Natural (1984)
Gotcha! (1985)
Awakenings (1990)
Avalon (1990)
Maverick (1994)
The Paper (1994)
Toy Story (1995)
Michael (1996)
James and the Giant Peach (1996)
A Bug’s Life (1998)
It’s Tough to Be a Bug (1998)
Pleasantville (1998)
Toy Story 2 (1999)
Meet the Parents (2000)
Monsters, Inc. (2001)
Seabiscuit (2003)
Meet the Fockers (2004)
Rois et reine (2004)
Cars (2006)
Leatherheads (2008)
The Princess and the Frog (2009)
Toy Story 3 (2010)


Randy Newman contributed to the screenplay for the following films:
¡Three Amigos! (1986)