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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?
Rufus Wainwright
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Rufus Wainwright
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: July 22
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Rhinebeck (village)
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Rufus McGarrigle Wainwright
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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 strive for what you do find in Shakespeare's work - that there is a definite humanity and a definite character behind the writing in the sonnets, and it's very real because it's so deeply personal. I try to aspire to that in what I do.
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The operas I listen to aren't in English, and I want to listen to my opera after I'm done with it. I want to have the desire to play it on the stereo. To me, the language is part of the mystery.
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I like to try new things.
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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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Life is the longest death in California.
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I do not consider myself a guitar player. My father is a guitar player - I'm not.
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I was in the forest jumping around daffodils while everyone was high on heroin.
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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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I bemoan the fact that all my famous friends have places in St. Bart's and I have to go to Montauk.
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When I'm in the classical world, I really treat it as exactly classical and I don't try and spruce it up or jazz it up or make it easier for the masses.
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My cheeks explode when I smile. Thats why I have to look so nonplussed.
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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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I think I've done a pretty fantastic job, but of course I want to sell millions of records.
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Madonna created a monster that sucks up souls.
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My dad and I have always been somewhat competitive.
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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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I should write a musical. That is probably one of the final areas that I should pay attention to, because it does kind of involve everything. It's got theatre, it's got young, pretty people... And it's got money!
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A diaper is as inspiring as a drink.
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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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