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I do not consider myself a guitar player. My father is a guitar player - I'm not.

Rufus Wainwright

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Rufus Wainwright
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: July 22
Composer
Musician
Pianist
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Rhinebeck (village)
New York
Rufus McGarrigle Wainwright
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Father
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Guitar

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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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In the present world, this technological, psychotic, politicised, nonsensical world, you have to believe that the good guys are going to win! That evil will be banished somehow!
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And I am left behind Corrupted crushed and blind All for a dream That in truth was never really mine.
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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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You had to be an over-the-top, demanding, dramatic figure in order to progress as a woman in Europe over the last few hundred years. Now people say, You're being such a prima donna, meaning you're being hard to deal with or crazy. It's a bit sexist.
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I would love to have a number one hit. The truth is if I don't get one, I'll be fine, but at the same time, the truth is that I'm dying for one, as well.
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