Randy Newman
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"Randall Stuart" ""Randy"" "Newman" is an American singer-songwriter, arrangement/arranger, composer, and pianist who is known for his distinctive voice, wiktionary:mordant/mordant (and often satire/satirical) Pop music/pop songs and for film scores.

Since the 1980s, Newman has worked mostly as a film composer. His film scores include Ragtime (film)/Ragtime, Awakenings, The Natural (film)/The Natural, Leatherheads, James and the Giant Peach (film)/James and the Giant Peach, Cats Don't Dance, Meet the Parents, Cold Turkey (film)/Cold Turkey, Seabiscuit (film)/Seabiscuit and The Princess and the Frog. He has scored seven Walt Disney Pictures/Disney-Pixar films: Toy Story, A Bug's Life, Toy Story 2, Monsters, Inc., Cars (film)/Cars, Toy Story 3, and most recently, Monsters University.

Newman has been nominated for 20 Academy Awards, winning twice. He has also won three Primetime Emmy Award/Emmys, six Grammy Awards, and the Governor's Award from the Recording Academy. Newman was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2002. In 2007, he was inducted as a Disney Legends/Disney Legend. Newman was inducted to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in April 2013.

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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.

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

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'd like to go on the road again with a band. When I did it I loved the social aspects of it, you know traveling with the band and all, but I didn't like the music as well. And there was nothing of visual interest. Maybe I would have to get someone else to play so I could finally dance the way I was born to do.

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.

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 do movies because I love writing for orchestra though it scares me and the money is good. I can't make a living doing just albums, times are difficult now for geriatric artists.

When people start knocking those bands, those bands that sing all that harmony, it's hard, I can't do it. Course, there's only one of me.

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