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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

Next to Wainwright, who was already — Jeffrey Archer

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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