Rufus Wainwright Quotes About Songs

Quotes about: Songs

• 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.

  Rufus Wainwright

  Mother, Song, Tragedy

• I definitely consider 'Poses' - the whole album in fact - to be kind of a miracle. Like the last breath of that moment when decadence is healthy, 'Poses' encapsulates that feeling. It's a kind of song and a kind of album that I'll never be able to repeat.

  Rufus Wainwright

  Song, Miracle, Healthy

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

  Rufus Wainwright

  Song, Opera, Kind

  "Rufus Wainwright: 'I was looking right into her face when my mother died'". Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. February 20, 2010.

• 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

  Song, Missing, Elements

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Rufus Wainwright

  Song, Philosophy, Volition

• When it comes to sitting down and composing, there is no hesitation, no concern, no critics breathing fire down my neck. For me, writing a song is the purest part of all. No one can mess with that.

  Rufus Wainwright

  Song, Writing, Fire

• I've written songs for Shirley Bassey, Marianne Faithfull, and Linda Thompson. I sort of focus on these wonderful, aging divas. But maybe that's because I think I'm Christina Aguilera.

  Rufus Wainwright

  Song, Thinking, Focus

• Why be in music, why write songs, if you can't use them to explore life or an idealized vision of life?

  Rufus Wainwright

  Song, Writing, Vision

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• 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

• The song is about knowing the end result of every situation you're in, and being able to play it out in your mind and see it before it happens. It's about addiction, really, about knowing how it's all going to end up. In that sense, you're watching a movie of yourself all the time - and then you want out of that movie.

  Rufus Wainwright

  Song, Play, Knowing

  "Want One Bio". Rufus Wainwright @rufuswainwrightofficial, www.facebook.com. December 01, 2009.

• I'd be hanging out in my bathrobe all day, stinky, just writing, and my mom allowed me to do this-as long as I was writing songs. She said, 'As long as you're seriously working on music, I'll support you. Don't get a job, because if you work, it will crush you.

  Rufus Wainwright

  Crush, Mom, Song

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