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That will to love is very powerful. But it doesn't always win.

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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I don't want to hold you and feel so helpless I don't want to smell you and lose my senses And smile in slow motion With eyes in love.
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Some people go to Berlin to get more cutting edge I went and started wearing lederhosen and going to visit baroque palaces.
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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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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.
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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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Once you've fallen from classical virtue, won't have a soul for to wake up and hold you.
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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 want to carve out a serious period of time to focus on the next opera without any distractions. And to do that you need money.
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I will take my coffee black / never snack / hang with the wolves who are sheepish.
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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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For me, the iPhone is harder than reading Faust.
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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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I have a three-year-old daughter, which makes me more environmentally conscious. For me, it's about the future.
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All humans realize they are loved when witnessing the dawn early morning is the triumph of good over evil. Absolved by light we decide to go on.
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As an artist, you put so much into what you do and it can all be torn down in a nanosecond.
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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 am always writing if you want to survive in this business, you need to keep working, keep creating and never stop the output.
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All these poses of classical torture ruined my mind like a snake in the orchard. I did go from wanting to be someone, now I'm drunk and wearing flip-flops on Fifth Avenue.
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I definitely have a Luddite's approach to what's going on. I find that as I get older, I get stupider. For me, the iPhone is harder than reading Faust. I've been hanging out a bit with Lou Reed, and he's the complete opposite. He's into technology and is kind of like a toddler, compared to me, who's like an old 19th-century widow or something.
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I'd be hanging out in my bathrobe all day, stinky, just writing, and my mom allowed me to do this-as long as I was writing songs. She said, 'As long as you're seriously working on music, I'll support you. Don't get a job, because if you work, it will crush you.
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