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These are just the rules and regulations Of the birds, and the bees The earth, and the trees, Not to mention the gods, not to mention the gods.

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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Trees
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Everything I do, I feel is genius. Whether it is or it isn't.
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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 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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But I don't even think you hear me at all Under your medieval ceiling behind your biblical wall
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The artist who gave me the most inspiration and direction, especially as a singer - and I absolutely consider myself a singer, 100 percent - is Nina Simone. She's my ultimate pianist-singer-type person.
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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'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 think my mother, more than anyone, knew the importance of inspiration. If it was occurring, you had to use it.
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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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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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