Rufus Wainwright Quotes: top 94 famous quotes about Rufus Wainwright

Rufus Wainwright Quotes & Sayings

Happy to read and share the best inspirational Rufus Wainwright quotes, sayings and quotations on Wise Famous Quotes.

I'm very fit on tour. I try to eat well, try to sleep. But it's still rock n' roll. — Rufus Wainwright

Guess the world needs both sun And the moon too Sad with what I have except for you. — Rufus Wainwright

I really want to work with Rufus Wainwright. Michael Stipe from R.E.M. I would love to work with Kanye West. — Rico Love

I'm not a terrible smoker, actually. My major addiction, which is horrible, is straight boys. — Rufus Wainwright

I believe in freedom Freedom's apparently all I need But who's ever been free in this world? Who has never had to bleed in this world? — Rufus Wainwright

Wouldn't Ponochio II be a great musical, now that he has to face the real world and get a wife ... job. Now he wants to be a toy again. — Rufus Wainwright

There is this church that I go to a lot in New York. I'm not religious but I love lighting candles and stuff. I find it useful. — Rufus Wainwright

I just think it's better to have ideas. I mean, you can change an idea. Changing a belief is trickier, people die for them, people kill for them. — Rufus Wainwright

I wish I could just relax sometimes and make some money, but I always feel like I have to prove some kind of big, profound point. — Rufus Wainwright

I bemoan the fact that all my famous friends have places in St. Bart's and I have to go to Montauk. — Rufus Wainwright

It seems like the older I get, the more unreal the world becomes. — Rufus Wainwright

Life is a game and true love is a trophy. — Rufus Wainwright

Once you've fallen from classical virtue, won't have a soul for to wake up and hold you. — Rufus Wainwright

I would love to play with Rufus Wainwright. He's one of my favorite songwriters. — Sydney Wayser

I think I've done a pretty fantastic job, but of course I want to sell millions of records. — Rufus Wainwright

I'll always be a boulevardier. I have an extreme reverence and romantic longing for all that is decrepit and fatalistic. — Rufus Wainwright

I will take my coffee black / never snack / hang with the wolves who are sheepish. — Rufus Wainwright

You get to a certain age, and you feel the need to reward yourself just for existing. — Rufus Wainwright

I am undefinable. I don't fit into any particular category. — Rufus Wainwright

I have never cooked a meal in my life and always end up paying for dozens of people to eat with me. — Rufus Wainwright

Some people go to Berlin to get more cutting edge; I went and started wearing lederhosen and going to visit baroque palaces. — Rufus Wainwright

I am always writing; if you want to survive in this business, you need to keep working, keep creating and never stop the output. — Rufus Wainwright

My cheeks explode when I smile. That's why I have to look so nonplussed. — Rufus Wainwright

I personally don't have the ability to lie about my life, for better or for worse. — Rufus Wainwright

I like to sing to Verdi, I like singing to Sibelius, and Mahler maybe. — Rufus Wainwright

Everything I do, I feel is genius. Whether it is or it isn't. — Rufus Wainwright

Being uncool is being pretty much the coolest you can be. — Rufus Wainwright

I have an ounce of Lady Gaga's full-bodied ambition. — Rufus Wainwright

There's no life without humour. It can make the wonderful moments of life truly glorious, and it can make tragic moments bearable. — Rufus Wainwright

Once illness strikes, you realize there's not a lot of time for you to do what you really need to do. And there's no time like the present. — Rufus Wainwright

And I am left behind Corrupted crushed and blind All for a dream That in truth was never really mine. — Rufus Wainwright

Let the little fairy in you fly! — Rufus Wainwright

I have managed to eke out a good and substantial existence. I'm not shoveling gold bricks or anything, but I do very, very well. — Rufus Wainwright

I like Rufus Wainwright a whole lot. He makes me wanna be even more musical. — Edie Brickell

I have this horrible, horrible habit of going on YouTube and checking out comments about what I do. — Rufus Wainwright

But I want to deepen as an artist, and working with Shakespeare definitely points in that direction. — Rufus Wainwright

To me, songs come of their own volition - and with an open-ended philosophy. — Rufus Wainwright

Musically I'm able to keep going, because it's not about money and it's not about success. It's a challenge. — Rufus Wainwright

I like to think of myself as a combination of Sid Vicious and Virgil Thompson — Rufus Wainwright

I could always escape into this demi-monde of homosexuality, which I feel really indebted to. It stopped me being a 'mummy's boy.' — Rufus Wainwright

I have a three-year-old daughter, which makes me more environmentally conscious. For me, it's about the future. — Rufus Wainwright

I'm your knight in shining armor. I'm here to save you from Linkin Park. — Rufus Wainwright

For me, the iPhone is harder than reading Faust. — Rufus Wainwright

I am regarded as a usurper, as an imposter and dilettante, because I do technically come from the wrong side of the tracks in musical terms. — Rufus Wainwright

Mowing your lawn is against nature. — Rufus Wainwright

That will to love is very powerful. But it doesn't always win. — Rufus Wainwright

I've been thinking of trying my hand at rap. I've been recording snippets on my BlackBerry. — Rufus Wainwright

I think my mother, more than anyone, knew the importance of inspiration. If it was occurring, you had to use it. — Rufus Wainwright

But I don't even think you hear me at all Under your medieval ceiling behind your biblical wall — Rufus Wainwright

'Prima Donna' is my kind of love song to opera but it's not the full experience. — Rufus Wainwright

The moment something happens to one you love, it's twenty times more intense. You experience pain and enlightenment on a much vaster scale. — Rufus Wainwright

I like to try new things. — Rufus Wainwright

I very much faced my mother's death with hard, arduous and time-consuming labor. The more I would do, the less I would feel. — Rufus Wainwright

My dad and I have always been somewhat competitive. — Rufus Wainwright

Somebody curse the light And take me far away from myself — Rufus Wainwright

I may not lead the most dramatic life, but in my brain it's 'War and Peace' everyday. — Rufus Wainwright

Unless I have my aunt or my boyfriend to take care of me, I'm a little pathetic. — Rufus Wainwright

I knew I was gay when I was around 13. There wasn't the internet, there weren't support groups, AIDS was everywhere. I mean, it was really dark. — Rufus Wainwright

Every video I do is over budget by the time I walk on set. I am massively extravagant in my personal habits. — Rufus Wainwright

These are just the rules and regulations Of the birds, and the bees The earth, and the trees, Not to mention the gods, not to mention the gods. — Rufus Wainwright

All humans realize they are loved when witnessing the dawn; early morning is the triumph of good over evil. Absolved by light we decide to go on. — Rufus Wainwright

The more hedonistic you were, the better ... I very much subscribed to that as a young artist. — Rufus Wainwright

I still believe that love is the most powerful force in the world, even though I am yet to experience it fully. — Rufus Wainwright

I find so many songwriters today are missing an element ... either the production is amazing but the songs aren't, or it's the other way around. — Rufus Wainwright

I think the minute you mention death, people run for the hills - unless it's heavy metal. People do not like death. — Rufus Wainwright

I was reared on folk music. — Rufus Wainwright

I definitely have a Luddite's approach to what's going on. I find that as I get older, I get stupider. — Rufus Wainwright

Yes, I'm a homosexual and I like to shock people with glamour. — Rufus Wainwright

I have earned hundreds of thousands of pounds, but I can't seem to get to grips with money. — Rufus Wainwright

I don't really have a relationship with the guitar; it's like my slutty lover, whereas I'm married to the piano — Rufus Wainwright

Rufus Wainwright is my go-to for any kind of emotion. He's got songs for all of it. — Drake Bell

I've developed into quite a swan. I'm one of those people that will probably look better and better as I get older - until I drop dead of beauty. — Rufus Wainwright

I want to carve out a serious period of time to focus on the next opera without any distractions. And to do that you need money. — Rufus Wainwright

I'm hyper light-sensitive and must sleep in the equivalent of a sealed tomb. — Rufus Wainwright

I don't want to hold you and feel so helpless I don't want to smell you and lose my senses And smile in slow motion With eyes in love. — Rufus Wainwright

I think we could all be a bit more elitist. — Rufus Wainwright

I've always gravitated towards opera, and the Royal Opera House is quite possibly the greatest opera house on earth. — Rufus Wainwright

Life is the longest death in California, — Rufus Wainwright

I love being not cool. — Rufus Wainwright

When I was signed, at the age of 23 ... the fact that I presented myself as an out gay man was very, very unusual. — Rufus Wainwright

My mother and father could not handle even me being gay. We never talked about it, really. — Rufus Wainwright

I like to make the mundane fabulous whenever I can. — Rufus Wainwright

I came out of the closet very young, and I had to cut my teeth pretty fast. — Rufus Wainwright

I think everybody identified at a pretty young age that I was fairly entranced with myself. And that I had to be tempered. — Rufus Wainwright

After years of hotels, I'm horribly inept at cleaning up after myself. — Rufus Wainwright

As an artist, you put so much into what you do and it can all be torn down in a nanosecond. — Rufus Wainwright

And you will believe in love And all that it's supposed to be But just until the fish start to smell And you're struck down by a hammer. — Rufus Wainwright

Certainly in terms of my life - anybody's life - you go through death, childbirth and marriage, glory and defeat, and so on. — Rufus Wainwright

Madonna created a monster that sucks up souls. — Rufus Wainwright

Premiering a new opera is probably one of the hardest things in the world to do, and opening nights of any opera are always pretty stressful. — Rufus Wainwright

I was in the forest jumping around daffodils while everyone was high on heroin. — Rufus Wainwright

A diaper is as inspiring as a drink. — Rufus Wainwright

I do not consider myself a guitar player. My father is a guitar player - I'm not. — Rufus Wainwright

I have a good face for what I do. — Rufus Wainwright