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All Quotes by author - Martha Wainwright

" Being a woman in music and having kids, it's very hard to do both without neglecting one a bit. "

" I don't like talking about music. "

" I have a tendency to run after people who are completely unattainable and uninterested and make a complete fool of myself. "

" I might not be beautiful, but I'm very interesting! "

" I'm in hotel rooms night after night, playing a lot of the same venues as my dad and carrying the guitar that used to be his. We're the same person. I don't know if he realises how much of a legacy he has left to his children. "

" I'm not very prolific. I'm not good at sitting down as an artist and saying 'Okay, I need to put in my four hours today.' "

" I'm trying to solidify a long-term career, because I have no other skills and no other abilities. "

" I think my mother was always worried about me when she was alive. "

" I've always been given respect because I'm kind of mannish, and I'm not a great beauty. I've never played the coquette card because I'm no good at it. "

" I've always had a tendency to push the envelope as far as it can go without hurting someone's feelings. "

" I've learnt to hide my tears on stage. They make people uncomfortable. "

" I've spent the first part of my life in the shadow of my family. I'm not going to live in the shadow of my husband. "

" I wanted to be heard myself, which is hard in a household of people who were very showy. It forced me to find myself and define a personality and a way of being different, and that's a thing that's going to help me to survive in a world of many people playing the guitar. "

" I was kind of a misfit, and when my mother died, I had to become an adult, something that I never thought I would ever be. "

" I was not that pretty a girl and I was never pursued as a teenager or young woman, so I was used to having no shame and trying to get people to love me. "

" My childhood definitely revolved around my relationship with my brother. I wanted to be different. I wanted to find my way of being as intriguing and interesting as he was. "

" You have to be willing to give a lot to be in a relationship with me because a lot of the time it's about me. "

" You know, people always ask me how I describe my music. First of all I tell them that's their job and then that also one day I hope to have things referred to as Martha Wainwright -esque. "

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