Rufus Wainwright Quotes
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Rufus Wainwright Famous Quotes & Sayings
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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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
Some people go to Berlin to get more cutting edge; I went and started wearing lederhosen and going to visit baroque palaces.
I am always writing; if you want to survive in this business, you need to keep working, keep creating and never stop the output.
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.
And I am left behind Corrupted crushed and blind All for a dream That in truth was never really mine.
I think everybody identified at a pretty young age that I was fairly entranced with myself. And that I had to be tempered.
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.
Musically I'm able to keep going, because it's not about money and it's not about success. It's a challenge.
I have a three-year-old daughter, which makes me more environmentally conscious. For me, it's about the future.
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.
But I want to deepen as an artist, and working with Shakespeare definitely points in that direction.
I think my mother, more than anyone, knew the importance of inspiration. If it was occurring, you had to use it.
I could always escape into this demi-monde of homosexuality, which I feel really indebted to. It stopped me being a 'mummy's boy.'
I'll always be a boulevardier. I have an extreme reverence and romantic longing for all that is decrepit and fatalistic.
The moment something happens to one you love, it's twenty times more intense. You experience pain and enlightenment on a much vaster scale.
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.
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.
Every video I do is over budget by the time I walk on set. I am massively extravagant in my personal habits.
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.
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.
I still believe that love is the most powerful force in the world, even though I am yet to experience it fully.
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.
I think the minute you mention death, people run for the hills - unless it's heavy metal. People do not like death.
I definitely have a Luddite's approach to what's going on. I find that as I get older, I get stupider.
I don't really have a relationship with the guitar; it's like my slutty lover, whereas I'm married to the piano
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.
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.
I've always gravitated towards opera, and the Royal Opera House is quite possibly the greatest opera house on earth.
When I was signed, at the age of 23 ... the fact that I presented myself as an out gay man was very, very unusual.
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.
There's no life without humour. It can make the wonderful moments of life truly glorious, and it can make tragic moments bearable.
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.
Certainly in terms of my life - anybody's life - you go through death, childbirth and marriage, glory and defeat, and so on.