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I like to think of myself as a combination of Sid Vicious and Virgil Thompson
Rufus Wainwright
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Rufus Wainwright
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: July 22
Composer
Musician
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Singer-Songwriter
Rhinebeck (village)
New York
Rufus McGarrigle Wainwright
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More quotes by Rufus Wainwright
You know the question: 'How do you get to Carnegie Hall?' Answer: 'Practise?' Well, in my case, I got there by not practising. I didn't finish my music degree. And when I got into the pop world, I decided not to conform because I figured that the point of being an artist was that you shouldn't be like anyone else.
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Certainly in terms of my life - anybody's life - you go through death, childbirth and marriage, glory and defeat, and so on.
Rufus Wainwright
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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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 think the minute you mention death, people run for the hills - unless it's heavy metal. People do not like death.
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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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I'm not a terrible smoker, actually. My major addiction, which is horrible, is straight boys.
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I think my imagination and my passions are still firing away, but it's really the body that starts to make up the rules. It's not a major problem it's just when you get a little older you realize how much your body thanks you when you are good to it.
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Life is the longest death in California.
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You get to a certain age, and you feel the need to reward yourself just for existing.
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The thing I hate most is false modesty. The artists who are, like, Oh, you know, I'm really not that good. Oh, I can't believe I'm here. I find it vaguely sinister, even.
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I like to try new things.
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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 have this horrible, horrible habit of going on YouTube and checking out comments about what I do.
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Well, my great lesson with that was I went to the same production twice - once completely high and once completely sober - and both times were equally wonderful.
Rufus Wainwright
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 may not lead the most dramatic life, but in my brain it's 'War and Peace' everyday.
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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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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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I have managed to eke out a good and substantial existence. I'm not shoveling gold bricks or anything, but I do very, very well.
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