There is a great book out called 'Everything I Needed to Learn I Learned in Kindergarten,' and I believe that everything I ever needed to learn on guitar was in my first two years of hungry learning: Scotty Moore, Hank Marvin, Chet Atkins, Lenny Breau, Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley.


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Our original name was Wild Country, but when we first went to The Bowery, they had the name of all 5...
RANDY OWEN
For me, when I grew up playing music, I played music in church and people were shouting and having a...
RANDY OWEN
As long as God lets me live, I want to do things that make a difference in the world besides play mu...
RANDY OWEN
God has to let you be there, and then you just have to have good fortune for whatever reason. I'...
RANDY OWEN
I can't not be who I am.
RANDY OWEN
The Bowery was a place that would let us do original songs - not just covers - but we would have to ...
RANDY OWEN
I feel very good and positive about my future. I look forward to seeing the fans and doing what I do...
RANDY OWEN
The juices never stop flowing. I still write songs.
RANDY OWEN
The writing part of my life never changes, because that's just when the inspiration comes.
RANDY OWEN
I like Public Enemy a great deal.
RANDY NEWMAN
I always thought my best album was 'Trouble in Paradise.' I was the happiest with that one.
RANDY NEWMAN
I've worked with a band, and it's nice to have someone to travel around with, but I didn'...
RANDY NEWMAN
'Rednecks' always made me nervous to play, but I'm glad I wrote it and I continue to pla...
RANDY NEWMAN
Mostly, I don't write overtly personal stuff.
RANDY NEWMAN
What I'm most pleased about is that there's no particular decline. The songs I wrote 40 year...
RANDY NEWMAN
But I don't want to sing everything out of the side of my mouth, I want people to understand wha...
RANDY NEWMAN
I've written a song for Prince. I never showed it to Prince, but just to see if I could do it. A...
RANDY NEWMAN
I don't remember ever having writer's block. If I sit in there for four hours, I'll usua...
RANDY NEWMAN
I like the performing. And interviews, even. And the stuff that's not sitting in a room by yours...
RANDY NEWMAN
It's very hard to get rich and famous at a young age and handle it well.
RANDY NEWMAN
I started recording because I was always complaining about the records that I was getting of my song...
RANDY NEWMAN
I once had dinner with Madonna and I wasn't nervous but within about a minute I found myself tal...
RANDY NEWMAN
But if you're doing something, show up everyday, and something good might happen - it's not ...
RANDY NEWMAN
Stay away from drugs. They're not worth it. I've tried, but there's none of them that...
RANDY NEWMAN
I am not overlooking any mail. I'm looking at all of it. I even wrote back to the Viagra people.
RANDY NEWMAN
I like science - geography, meteorology, cosmology.
RANDY NEWMAN
I've always had a lot of respect from the people I respected.
RANDY NEWMAN
Most of my songs are about insensitivity of some kind.
RANDY NEWMAN
If we'd had another carefree 70's, I'd have been dead. It was a little too carefree, you...
RANDY NEWMAN
I think the tax cut is ridiculous but so am I.
RANDY NEWMAN
It's funny; people get so doctrinaire about music. It should be the last thing you don't hav...
RANDY NEWMAN
Learn about the world, the way it works, any kind of science and anthropology, it's really an in...
RANDY NEWMAN
I like the idea of taking a true classic written by a true genius and destroying it essentially! I l...
RANDY NEWMAN
My music has a high irritation factor. I've always tried to say something. Eccentric lyrics abou...
RANDY NEWMAN
Thank God for the potholes on memory lane.
RANDY NEWMAN
The weekend brought good news for our friends in the cattle industry. At long last, Japan has taken ...
RANDY NEUGEBAUER
At a time when we are dealing with unpredictable suppliers of energy abroad and higher gas costs at ...
RANDY NEUGEBAUER
President Bush has a track record of making the right decisions when it comes to national security.
RANDY NEUGEBAUER
We can fight the War on Terrorism in other places around the world or we can fight it here in Americ...
RANDY NEUGEBAUER
For too long, Japan has been dragging its feet as it ignores the steps the U.S. has made to ensure a...
RANDY NEUGEBAUER
Thousands of years and many civilizations have defined a marriage as the union between one man and o...
RANDY NEUGEBAUER
Mr. Speaker, I rise today in support of the definition of a marriage as between one man and one woma...
RANDY NEUGEBAUER
Clearly, border security has been the top domestic issue of the year, and rightly so. Securing our b...
RANDY NEUGEBAUER
Small businesses are the number one job creators in America. Therefore, it is important that the fed...
RANDY NEUGEBAUER