Rufus Wainwright Quotes About Mothers

Quotes about: Mothers

• Arguably, the relationship between Liza Minnelli and Judy Garland is one of the great mother-daughter sagas of all time. Certainly, for certain people, and a lot of them, Liza is the bigger star. Liza is the more kind of viable legend, shall we say. Then there's the other camp, where Judy is the one.

  Rufus Wainwright

  Daughter, Mother, Stars

• I basically have needed to go to the piano and give voice periodically to, you know - I'm always afraid to describe it as a kind of therapeutic process, but nevertheless it was a type of unloading that had to occur due to my personal life with my mother's health or just my professional trials and tribulations.

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  Mother, Voice, Piano

• My mother's songs are really turning out to be masterpieces. I have inherited this incredible legacy and am so fortunate to bathe in her sensibilities. It is tinged with tragedy. I'd much rather she was here in person, but there is still a positive force to come out of her death and that is having the gift of music that she gave.

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  Mother, Song, Tragedy

• My mother had a lot of parties when I was a child. There'd always be a moment when she would place me on the upright piano and have me sing Somewhere Over the Rainbow.

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  Mother, Children, Party

  "Portrait of the artist: Rufus Wainwright, musician". Interview with Laura Barnett, www.theguardian.com. April 12, 2010.

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

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  Mother, Inspiration, Thinking

• My mother and father could not handle even me being gay. We never talked about it really.

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  Mother, Father, Gay

  "Crystal clear". Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. February 20, 2005.

• When it came to using elements of your personal life in your work, my mother was the master, or the mistress. There were three or four songs she wrote about my father - songs about failed love.

  Rufus Wainwright

  Mother, Song, Father

• 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.

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  Mother, Feels, Labor

• When I was young, my mother [folk singer Kate McGarrigle] brought home this recording of Verdi's Requiem and we listened to it from top to bottom. By the end of it, I was a completely different person. It was literally a requiem mass for my former self. I was about 12 or 13. The Requiem just totally hooked into what I was going through emotionally - discovering my sexuality right at the time when AIDS was devastating my community and dealing with intense parental situations.

  Rufus Wainwright

  Mother, Home, Self

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