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I always wanted to be an actor, even as a little kid. So I went to drama school in the late '60s at Carnegie Mellon.
— Loudon Wainwright III
You were made to soar, to crash to earth, then to rise and soar again.
— Alfred Wainwright
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'm not a terrible smoker, actually. My major addiction, which is horrible, is straight boys.
— 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
I went to college and stage school, and thought about acting, but ... I just don't like actors very much! They're not as fun as musicians.
— Martha Wainwright
I've always been given respect because I'm kind of mannish, and I'm not a great beauty. I've never played the coquette card because I'm no good at it.
— Martha Wainwright
I've always had a tendency to push the envelope as far as it can go without hurting someone's feelings.
— Martha Wainwright
Being a woman in music and having kids, it's very hard to do both without neglecting one a bit.
— Martha Wainwright
I thought there was a chance right from the beginning.
— Adam Wainwright
I have travelled and been pretty much a one man operation for most of my career, and I think it'll continue to be that way.
— Loudon Wainwright III
I think we could all be a bit more elitist.
— 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 think I'm the oldest new Bob Dylan around. I predate Bruce Springsteen, Steve Forbat and John Prine. I was probably the first of the new Bob Dylans.
— Loudon Wainwright III
I've always gravitated towards opera, and the Royal Opera House is quite possibly the greatest opera house on earth.
— Rufus Wainwright
I always seem to write personal songs; that's always been my go-to thing, to write about what I'm experiencing.
— Martha Wainwright
Life is the longest death in California,
— Rufus Wainwright
I was kind of a misfit, and when my mother died, I had to become an adult, something that I never thought I would ever be.
— Martha Wainwright
I love being not cool.
— 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
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 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 came out of the closet very young, and I had to cut my teeth pretty fast.
— 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
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I've spent the first part of my life in the shadow of my family. I'm not going to live in the shadow of my husband.
— Martha Wainwright
Everything I do, I feel is genius. Whether it is or it isn't.
— 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
Who was that fatman buried in your place? Just another imitator, plastic surgeons did his face.
— Loudon Wainwright III
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
I'm trying to solidify a long-term career, because I have no other skills and no other abilities.
— Martha 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 am undefinable. I don't fit into any particular category.
— Rufus Wainwright
I like to sing to Verdi, I like singing to Sibelius, and Mahler maybe.
— 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
Once you've fallen from classical virtue, won't have a soul for to wake up and hold you.
— Rufus Wainwright
You get to a certain age, and you feel the need to reward yourself just for existing.
— 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
I think I've done a pretty fantastic job, but of course I want to sell millions of records.
— Rufus Wainwright
Life is a game and true love is a trophy.
— Rufus Wainwright
I'm hyper light-sensitive and must sleep in the equivalent of a sealed tomb.
— Rufus Wainwright
I will take my coffee black / never snack / hang with the wolves who are sheepish.
— Rufus Wainwright
I'm not very prolific. I'm not good at sitting down as an artist and saying 'Okay, I need to put in my four hours today.'
— Martha Wainwright
I may not lead the most dramatic life, but in my brain it's 'War and Peace' everyday.
— Rufus Wainwright
If you're 28 and singing about being over the hill, you're pretending. When you're 67 and singing about it, you know what you're talking about.
— Loudon Wainwright III
When a parent dies, the whole house of cards comes down.
— Loudon Wainwright III
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 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
After a war, after a concentration camp, I find it's not too difficult to be happy.
— Loudon Wainwright III
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 love failure. It's stuff that I'm thinking about all the time in my life, so it would make sense to me anyway to write about it.
— Loudon Wainwright III
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
Peace is a militant state, which is not secured by wishful thinking ... If we are to be sure of our liberty, we must be ready to fight for it.
— Jonathan M. Wainwright
Adversity is only yet another means to remind us of 'How Truly Awsome We All Are'!
— W.O. Wainwright
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
A diaper is as inspiring as a drink.
— 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
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
As it turns out, three of my four kids are professional singers. And they're really interesting, good singers.
— Loudon Wainwright III
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've learnt to hide my tears on stage. They make people uncomfortable.
— Martha Wainwright
I wasn't in a lot of rock and roll bands. I was in jug bands and things when I was in school.
— Loudon Wainwright III
Why kill good people just to get a bad man?
— Loudon Wainwright III
After years of hotels, I'm horribly inept at cleaning up after myself.
— 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
When my mother died, and when my father died, it's big. Our parents are giants; they're titans of our lives, so of course it's going to be a big deal.
— Loudon Wainwright III
The more hedonistic you were, the better ... I very much subscribed to that as a young artist.
— Rufus Wainwright
I like to try new things.
— Rufus Wainwright
I have a tendency to run after people who are completely unattainable and uninterested and make a complete fool of myself.
— Martha Wainwright
It's hard to be a No. 1 when you're not even No. 1 on your team.
— Adam 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
An objective is an ambition, and life without ambition is ... well, aimless wandering.
— Alfred 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