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32 quotes by Loudon Wainwright III

Loudon Snowden Wainwright III (born September 5, 1946) is a Grammy Award-winning American songwriter, folk singer, humorist, and actor. He is the father of musicians Rufus Wainwright, Martha Wainwright and Lucy Wainwright Roche, brother of Sloan Wainwright, and the former husband of the late folk singer Kate McGarrigle. To date, Wainwright has released 26 studio albums. Reflecting upon his career, in 1999, Wainwright stated "you could...
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When you have a song on the radio your career and your life changes maybe for the better and maybe for the not so good... depending on how it's... →

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Family life is tough, I'll say that for it. But in my case, I've mined the family. In a sense, I've used it. I've used what happened... →

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I don't claim to be a particularly good father. I'm flawed, let's say. I've certainly been affected by the experience of having... →

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I think I'm great. I mean, I might as well come out and say it. Like most people, I have an ego and I'm in show business, so you have to have... →

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If I had five minutes to live, I don't think I'd be bothered singing a song. I'd be dead, so it won't really matter. I'd have a... →

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When you start performing, you realize that you have to separate yourself from the pack. So I would never wear bell-bottoms, which everybody else was... →

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When you start your career, you have to figure out a way to separate yourself from the pack. So I went for a kind of preppy, psycho-killer look: I... →

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I love failure. It's stuff that I'm thinking about all the time in my life, so it would make sense to me anyway to write about it.

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I think I'm the oldest new Bob Dylan around. I predate Bruce Springsteen, Steve Forbat and John Prine. I was probably the first of the new Bob... →

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I was a smoker for years. Occasionally I slip and have a cigarette. Remarkably, my voice has held up. I'm grateful, obviously. But I don't... →

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I've been writing about growing old for some time, really from the beginning of my career. It's something I'm apparently hung up about... →

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Los Angeles, the sun shines a lot, and it's blue, and there's palm trees; it's a bit like Sydney, I guess, but the underbelly is a... →

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The big things in the average person's life are the romances that they have - and then the destruction and loss of them. Parents, siblings... →

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