Home
Authors
Tags
App
Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App
" As an artist, you put so much into what you do and it can all be torn down in a nanosecond. "
Rufus Wainwright
Artist
You
Down
Related Quotes:
" Life is a game and true love is a trophy. "
Rufus Wainwright
Game
Love Is
Love
" I have a good face for what I do. "
Rufus Wainwright
Face
Good
" 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. "
Rufus Wainwright
Serious
Money
Focus
" 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. "
Rufus Wainwright
Out
Bricks
Existence
" I bemoan the fact that all my famous friends have places in St. Bart's and I have to go to Montauk. "
Rufus Wainwright
Famous
Friends
Go
" I think the minute you mention death, people run for the hills - unless it's heavy metal. People do not like death. "
Rufus Wainwright
Death
Think
Run
" Being uncool is being pretty much the coolest you can be. "
Rufus Wainwright
You
Being
Cool
" When it comes to sitting down and composing, there is no hesitation, no concern, no critics breathing fire down my neck. For me, writing a song is the purest part of all. No one can mess with that. "
Rufus Wainwright
Sitting
Fire
Down
" I'm hyper light-sensitive and must sleep in the equivalent of a sealed tomb. "
Rufus Wainwright
Hyper
Must
Sleep
" I'm a big fan of the Pre-Raphaelites. Millais, Edward Burne-Jones, and I realised recently that my music is Pre-Raphaelite in a certain way, in that it reinvents an older era and romanticises it, puts it in this gilded frame. "
Rufus Wainwright
Older
Frame
Fan
" I think we could all be a bit more elitist. "
Rufus Wainwright
More
Elitist
I Think
" 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. "
Rufus Wainwright
Hate
You
Know
" The Germany I was enthused with was more old fashioned and kind of romantic. I just got there, and the next thing you know, I had this huge gilded album. It was kind of an amazing experience because I didn't intend it to be that way. "
Rufus Wainwright
Know
Amazing
Experience
" My mother had a lot of parties when I was a child. There'd always be a moment when she would place me on the upright piano and have me sing Somewhere 'Over the Rainbow'. "
Rufus Wainwright
She
Mother
Moment
" I'm not born again, I'm not Kabbalah, God forbid, but I did have an experience hitting 30 that I needed to lean on something that assured me that everything is going to be okay. I had to regain a lot of my belief in fairy tales, in happy endings. "
Rufus Wainwright
Belief
Me
Happy
" I'll be honest, I worry sometimes about what I've done. I have tied my whole person to my art and, whatever it takes to get that hook, I will go there and do it. "
Rufus Wainwright
Art
Go
Person
" I am regarded as a usurper, as an imposter and dilettante, because I do technically come from the wrong side of the tracks in musical terms. "
Rufus Wainwright
Wrong
Side
I Am
" I definitely try to broaden the scope of music. I don't know if it's pop or classical or what, but I'm religiously challenging myself all the time, for better or for worse. "
Rufus Wainwright
Myself
Better
Time
" I like to make the mundane fabulous whenever I can. "
Rufus Wainwright
Mundane
Make
Like
" One of the main destructive forces within our family has been these runaway egos. I think if you look at any show business family, that struggle exists. "
Rufus Wainwright
Think
Business
Family
" I'm definitely a fan of juxtaposition. Using the most beautiful line to say the most horrific thing - I think one of the main things in songwriting is definitely friction between the words and the melody. "
Rufus Wainwright
Words
Think
Say
" After years of hotels, I'm horribly inept at cleaning up after myself. "
Rufus Wainwright
Myself
Cleaning
Years
" I think everybody identified at a pretty young age that I was fairly entranced with myself. And that I had to be tempered. "
Rufus Wainwright
Had
Think
Age
" Crazy as it sounds, I'm a believer in destiny and serendipity, and I have had cosmic experiences all my life. Something told me I was meant for greater stuff. And look, I've had a baby! And I've written an opera! "
Rufus Wainwright
Destiny
My Life
Me
" Arguably, the relationship between Liza Minnelli and Judy Garland is one of the great mother-daughter sagas of all time. Certainly, for certain people, and a lot of them, Liza is the bigger star. Liza is the more kind of viable legend, shall we say. Then there's the other camp, where Judy is the one. "
Rufus Wainwright
People
Time
Relationship
" 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. "
Rufus Wainwright
Again
Me
Reputation
" I basically have needed to go to the piano and give voice periodically to, you know - I'm always afraid to describe it as a kind of therapeutic process, but nevertheless it was a type of unloading that had to occur due to my personal life with my mother's health or just my professional trials and tribulations. "
Rufus Wainwright
Health
Voice
Process
" I have never cooked a meal in my life and always end up paying for dozens of people to eat with me. "
Rufus Wainwright
My Life
End
Life
" I am always writing; if you want to survive in this business, you need to keep working, keep creating and never stop the output. "
Rufus Wainwright
I Am
Need
Stop
" I find so many songwriters today are missing an element... either the production is amazing but the songs aren't, or it's the other way around. "
Rufus Wainwright
Today
Missing
Find