Quotes by Rufus Wainwright

About Rufus Wainwright:

Rufus McGarrigle Wainwright is an American-Canadian singer-songwriter and composer. He has recorded seven albums of original music and numerous tracks on compilations and film soundtracks. He has also written a classical opera and set Shakespeare sonnets to music for a theater piece by Robert Wilson.
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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.

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As an artist, you put so much into what you do and it can all be torn down in a nanosecond.

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I'm very fit on tour. I try to eat well, try to sleep. But it's still rock n' roll.

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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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I think I've done a pretty fantastic job, but of course I want to sell millions of records.

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

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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.

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

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In retrospect, I'm really shocked at how far I put my heart out there on the line with 'Prima Donna'. I seem to have this knack for being able to accomplish that.

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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.

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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.

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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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I still believe that love is the most powerful force in the world, even though I am yet to experience it fully.

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The moment something happens to one you love, it's twenty times more intense. You experience pain and enlightenment on a much vaster scale.

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

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Places that have experienced great defeat experience a kind of rebirth, which I think America has to do - unless we want to get more decrepit. I don't think we have to destroy the place totally.

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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.

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I am always writing; if you want to survive in this business, you need to keep working, keep creating and never stop the output.

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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 ri...

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One of the main destructive forces within our family has been these runaway egos. I think if you look at any show business family, that struggle exists.

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Author Bio

  • NameRufus Wainwright
  • DescriptionAmerican-Canadian singer-songwriter and composer
  • AliasesRufus McGarrigle Wainwright
  • BornJuly 22, 1973
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionComposer; Singer-songwriter; Pianist; Singer; Musician
  • WorksMilwaukee At Last!!!