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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)
New York
Rufus McGarrigle Wainwright
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And you will believe in love And all that it's supposed to be But just until the fish start to smell And you're struck down by a hammer.
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A diaper is as inspiring as a drink.
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I really need to know I may just never see you again, or might as well You took advantage of a world that loved you well I'm going to a town that has already been burnt down I'm so tired of you, America.
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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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If I had had more of a strategic attitude towards how to reveal my sexuality, and if I'd even played with it a little more, I could have sold a lot more albums and been a lot more famous.
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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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