Loudon Wainwright III quotes
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“Why kill good people just to get a bad man?”
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“I don't think of myself as a folk singer per se, but I really like blues and string-band music. When I started listening to records when I was a teenager, the folk boom was going on.”
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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 and now that I am old, hopefully I speak about it with some authority.”
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“I always wanted to be an actor, even as a little kid. So I went to drama school in the late '60s at Carnegie Mellon.”
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“I have travelled and been pretty much a one man operation for most of my career, and I think it'll continue to be that way.”
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“I'm always asked if the songs that I write are therapeutic, and my answer is a quick no. In fact, it could be argued that they exacerbate my neurosis.”
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“My music comes from country music. Merle Haggard is God, and I do believe that. I'm not too tuned in to country music. I don't know who Brooks and Dunn are. I like Shania Twain, though!”
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“It's nice when people say, 'God, I've been listening to you since 1963 or 1985, or whatever.' I appreciate anybody who goes out and buys music these days.”
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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've never really suffered complete and utter writer's block, really. I equate it with sex: in the beginning of my career, I was writing five songs a week; now, I occasionally write a song. But it's an exciting moment when it happens!”
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“When my mother died, and when my father died, it's big. Our parents are giants; they're titans of our lives, so of course it's going to be a big deal.”
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“I hated the idea that I would be like my father. Which is one of the reasons I decided I didn't want to be a writer and wanted to be an actor instead. I wanted to go in a total different direction. But, of course, I ended up being a writer anyway.”
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“I had a hip replacement a couple of years ago. I have a song about that. And why wouldn't you? It strikes me that that was a huge event. It's kind of funny and horrible and interesting, so why wouldn't one write about that?”
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“As it turns out, three of my four kids are professional singers. And they're really interesting, good singers.”
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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 glass of wine and a cigarette.”
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“It's hard for the modern generation to understand Thoreau, who lived beside a pond but didn't own water skis or a snorkel.”
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“Geoff Muldaur was and is one of my musical heroes. When I listen to him sing and play, I can hear the coal mine, the cotton field, and last, but certainly foremost, the boy's boarding school.”
-- Loudon Wainwright IIISource : "Geoff Muldaur Takes Texas Sheiks On The Road". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. December 7, 2009.
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“After a war, after a concentration camp, I find it's not too difficult to be happy.”
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“Who was that fatman buried in your place? Just another imitator, plastic surgeons did his face.”
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“Doomsday is quite within our reach, if we will only stretch for it.”
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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 going that day.”
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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 Dylans.”
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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 gargle with honey and ground-up bird eggs. I have no secrets.”
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“If you're 28 and singing about being over the hill, you're pretending. When you're 67 and singing about it, you know what you're talking about.”
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“When a parent dies, the whole house of cards comes down.”
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“When you make a record, you listen to it literally hundreds of times. When it's done and you can't do anything else, I never listen to my records.”
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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 vicious, mean, cruel, awful place.”
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“I wasn't in a lot of rock and roll bands. I was in jug bands and things when I was in school.”
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