Rufus Wainwright Quotes - Page 4

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• In the music business, to survive for so long, you have to be able to cut off from your emotions sometimes. And being a father, you're faced with that situation. I know that my father was, with me. I understand why he had to be distant, because to rip yourself away, time after time, is almost more devastating.

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  Father, Rip, Cutting

  "Rufus Wainwright: 'I've tried to be vegetarian but I keep falling off the horse and, like, eating it'" by Tom Lamont, www.theguardian.com. April 21, 2012.

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• All these poses of classical torture ruined my mind like a snake in the orchard. I did go from wanting to be someone, now I'm drunk and wearing flip-flops on Fifth Avenue.

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  Art, Snakes, Media

  Song: Poses, Album: Poses, 2001

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• I definitely try to broaden the scope of music. I don't know if it's pop or classical or what, but I'm religiously challenging myself all the time, for better or for worse.

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  Challenges, Trying, Challenging Myself

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• Crazy as it sounds, I'm a believer in destiny and serendipity, and I have had cosmic experiences all my life. Something told me I was meant for greater stuff. And look, I've had a baby! And I've written an opera!

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  Baby, Crazy, Destiny

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• When I wrote the opera, I made a deal with myself that for at least an hour a day I would work on it, even if it meant just sitting on my piano bench, staring into space and thinking about it. It's about keeping it regular, like your bowel movements - let's get real: it's your bodily artistic movements! It comes from the same place.

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  Real, Thinking, Piano

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• For better or worse, I've always been curious musically. Whether it's opera or Judy Garland or pop, I've deliberately sought those things out. I've never wanted to do the same things over and over. Some think I've accomplished what I set out to do, and others consider me a dilettante.

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  Thinking, Opera, Curious

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• New York is not the centre for American culture and art that it once was because of the forces of conservatism. Giuliani, capitalism - and then there was 9/11. I really believe that if I leave, it will suffer! Maybe that's why I love it here, because I feel wanted.

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  Art, New York, Believe

  "Nowt as queer as folk" by Kitty Empire, www.theguardian.com. October 12, 2003.

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• I have a good face for what I do.

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  Faces

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

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• I've paid the price; I definitely have a reputation that precedes me, and there is a camp that plots my demise. But then again... it's funner that way.

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  Plot, Demise, Way

  "Rufus and Martha Wainwright on Family Memories, Jealousy, and Fame". Interview with Miranda Siegel, www.vulture.com. February 19, 2013.

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• I'm not born again, I'm not Kabbalah, God forbid, but I did have an experience hitting 30 that I needed to lean on something that assured me that everything is going to be okay. I had to regain a lot of my belief in fairy tales, in happy endings.

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  Kabbalah, Hitting, Belief

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

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• I'm definitely a fan of juxtaposition. Using the most beautiful line to say the most horrific thing - I think one of the main things in songwriting is definitely friction between the words and the melody.

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  Beautiful, Thinking, Fans

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• I'm a big fan of the Pre-Raphaelites. Millais, Edward Burne-Jones, and I realised recently that my music is Pre-Raphaelite in a certain way, in that it reinvents an older era and romanticises it, puts it in this gilded frame.

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  Fans, Way, Eras

  “Nowt as queer as folk” by Kitty Empire, www.theguardian.com. October 12, 2003.

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• You know the question: 'How do you get to Carnegie Hall?' Answer: 'Practise?' Well, in my case, I got there by not practising. I didn't finish my music degree. And when I got into the pop world, I decided not to conform because I figured that the point of being an artist was that you shouldn't be like anyone else.

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  Artist, Degrees, Answers

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• I will take my coffee black / never snack / hang with the wolves who are sheepish.

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  Coffee, Snacks, Black

  Song: Foolish Love, Album: Rufus Wainwright

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• 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.

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  Gold, Bricks, Existence

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• I have earned hundreds of thousands of pounds, but I can't seem to get to grips with money.

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  Pounds, Seems, I Can

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

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  Song, Writing, Vision

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

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• 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.

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  Song, Missing, Elements

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

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• 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

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• You get to a certain age, and you feel the need to reward yourself just for existing.

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  Age, Needs, Rewards

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• Life is the longest death in California.

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  California, Life Is

  Song: California, Album: Poses, 2001

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• Looking back, one of the things I love most about my mom was that she never, ever relented. She stuck to her guns right up until the end. She wasn't abusive, but she was never that thrilled that I was gay.

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  Mom, Gay, Gun

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• 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.

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  Daughter, Mother, Stars

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• I have an ounce of Lady Gaga's full-bodied ambition.

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  Ambition, Gaga

  Interview, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 16, 2010.

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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?

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  Believe, Needs, World

  Song: Zebulon, 2010

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