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"About a year ago, out of the blue, I just wrote a bunch of songs"

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The charm is in how aggressively unglamorous it sounds. In an industry that sells origin stories like movie trailers, Rick Moranis frames creativity as weather: it arrives "out of the blue", and he simply reacts. No tortured-genius myth, no branding campaign, no implication that songwriting was always his destiny. Just a guy who, one day, wrote "a bunch of songs". The understatement reads like a quiet flex and a gentle refusal to perform artistic suffering for the public.

Moranis is an actor audiences associate with decency and domestic stakes: the dad in over his head, the adult trying to keep the world from breaking. That persona matters here. His most famous real-life move was stepping away from Hollywood to focus on family, which already positioned him as someone skeptical of showbiz urgency. So the subtext of the line is control: he creates on his own timeline, in his own lane, without asking permission from the machinery that usually dictates relevance.

The phrase "a bunch" also does cultural work. It lowers the temperature, sidestepping expectations of a major comeback or a manifesto. It's almost anti-promo, which paradoxically makes it more persuasive. In a moment when celebrity creativity often arrives prepackaged as a "drop", Moranis offers the older, rarer idea that art can be incidental to the spotlight - not content, not strategy, just something you do because it showed up.

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APA Style (7th ed.)
Moranis, Rick. (2026, January 16). About a year ago, out of the blue, I just wrote a bunch of songs. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/about-a-year-ago-out-of-the-blue-i-just-wrote-a-90777/

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Moranis, Rick. "About a year ago, out of the blue, I just wrote a bunch of songs." FixQuotes. January 16, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/about-a-year-ago-out-of-the-blue-i-just-wrote-a-90777/.

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"About a year ago, out of the blue, I just wrote a bunch of songs." FixQuotes, 16 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/about-a-year-ago-out-of-the-blue-i-just-wrote-a-90777/. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.

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Rick Moranis (born April 18, 1953) is a Actor from Canada.

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