Loudon Wainwright quote: "Displaying a bland, even an eerie, disregard for what appeared to be the facts of the situation, he fell back on an old habit of looking ahead to the next defeat."

The magnificence of mountains, the serenity of nature - nothing is safe from the idiot marks of man'...
LOUDON WAINWRIGHT

I don't claim to be a particularly good father. I'm flawed, let's say. I've certainl...
LOUDON WAINWRIGHT III

If I had five minutes to live, I don't think I'd be bothered singing a song. I'd be dead...
LOUDON WAINWRIGHT III

When you start your career, you have to figure out a way to separate yourself from the pack. So I we...
LOUDON WAINWRIGHT III

I don't think of myself as a folk singer per se, but I really like blues and string-band music. ...
LOUDON WAINWRIGHT III

I'm always asked if the songs that I write are therapeutic, and my answer is a quick no. In fact...
LOUDON WAINWRIGHT III

I wasn't in a lot of rock and roll bands. I was in jug bands and things when I was in school.
LOUDON WAINWRIGHT III

I think I'm great. I mean, I might as well come out and say it. Like most people, I have an ego ...
LOUDON WAINWRIGHT III

My music comes from country music. Merle Haggard is God, and I do believe that. I'm not too tune...
LOUDON WAINWRIGHT III

Family life is tough, I'll say that for it. But in my case, I've mined the family. In a sens...
LOUDON WAINWRIGHT III

The big things in the average person's life are the romances that they have - and then the destr...
LOUDON WAINWRIGHT III

Los Angeles, the sun shines a lot, and it's blue, and there's palm trees; it's a bit lik...
LOUDON WAINWRIGHT III

When my mother died, and when my father died, it's big. Our parents are giants; they're tita...
LOUDON WAINWRIGHT III

Writing an opera and premiering in England, you could say I was going right into the eye of the stor...
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT

As long as they say bullpen in St. Louis, then I'm all for it. I still think of myself as a starter....
ADAM WAINWRIGHT

I think I can do way better. I'm not real pleased with today. I got out of some situations and pitch...
ADAM WAINWRIGHT

I think the years of toiling around in the minors have really helped.
ADAM WAINWRIGHT

Today, I really struggled staying back on the rubber and getting the ball down. But when I did, you ...
ADAM WAINWRIGHT

It was nice of Jason to let me start that game. He didn't have to let me do that. It was nice to get...
ADAM WAINWRIGHT

I try to not to think about the pressure. I don't want any more pressure on me. I just want to pitch...
ADAM WAINWRIGHT

I learned a lot from him.
ADAM WAINWRIGHT

I go in thinking about whatever they'll let me do at the big-league level. You never know what happe...
ADAM WAINWRIGHT

For the most part my year went pretty good. I had a couple abysmal starts that really ruined my stat...
ADAM WAINWRIGHT

If I play a bad round, which I've been having lately, Mulder will let me have it. I've heard his who...
ADAM WAINWRIGHT

There is no such thing as bravery; only degrees of fear.
JOHN WAINWRIGHT

Everything I do, I feel is genius. Whether it is or it isn't.
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT

Sometimes the cure for restlessness is rest.
COLLEEN WAINWRIGHT

I love stuff as much as the next guy, but Ive come to understand that, regardless of the cost of a...
COLLEEN WAINWRIGHT

I've written songs for Shirley Bassey, Marianne Faithfull, and Linda Thompson. I sort of focus o...
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT

Life is a game and true love is a trophy.
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT

You know the question: 'How do you get to Carnegie Hall?' Answer: 'Practise?' Well, ...
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT

My cheeks explode when I smile. That's why I have to look so nonplussed.
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT

I'm very much a romantic. I'm highly attuned to an older sensibility, which I believe is ali...
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT

Why be in music, why write songs, if you can't use them to explore life or an idealized vision o...
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT

I believe a lot of our lives are spent asleep, and what I've been trying to do is hold on to tho...
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT

I'm your knight in shining armor. I'm here to save you from Linkin Park.
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT

My mother's songs are really turning out to be masterpieces. I have inherited this incredible le...
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT

I bemoan the fact that all my famous friends have places in St. Bart's and I have to go to Monta...
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT

Some people go to Berlin to get more cutting edge; I went and started wearing lederhosen and going t...
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT

There's no life without humour. It can make the wonderful moments of life truly glorious, and it...
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT

Being uncool is being pretty much the coolest you can be.
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT

I definitely consider 'Poses' - the whole album in fact - to be kind of a miracle. Like the ...
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT

Places that have experienced great defeat experience a kind of rebirth, which I think America has to...
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT

I am regarded as a usurper, as an imposter and dilettante, because I do technically come from the wr...
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT

For better or worse, I've always been curious musically. Whether it's opera or Judy Garland ...
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT

This is pretty much what journals are all about, at least to me. I knew as I wrote them that even th...
COLLEEN WAINWRIGHT

There's no life without humour. It can make the wonderful moments of life truly glorious, and it can...
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT

I may not lead the most dramatic life, but in my brain it's War and Peace everyday.
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT

Let the little fairy in you fly!
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT

I've developed into quite a swan. I'm one of those people that will probably look better and better ...
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT

Even the great get greater by doing more of it.
COLLEEN WAINWRIGHT

Reading is no substitute for action.
COLLEEN WAINWRIGHT

Being friendless taught me how to be a friend. Funny how that works.
COLLEEN WAINWRIGHT

I'd be hanging out in my bathrobe all day, stinky, just writing, and my mom allowed me to do this-as...
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT

The Germany I was enthused with was more old fashioned and kind of romantic. I just got there, and t...
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT

I think everybody identified at a pretty young age that I was fairly entranced with myself. And that...
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT

I've had my ups and downs, and I definitely have a sense - in America, especially - that once yo...
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT

Arguably, the relationship between Liza Minnelli and Judy Garland is one of the great mother-daughte...
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT

The thing I hate most is false modesty. The artists who are, like, 'Oh, you know, I'm really...
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT

In the present world, this technological, psychotic, politicised, nonsensical world, you have to bel...
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT

I'm definitely a fan of juxtaposition. Using the most beautiful line to say the most horrific th...
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT

I could always escape into this demi-monde of homosexuality, which I feel really indebted to. It sto...
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT

I'm hyper light-sensitive and must sleep in the equivalent of a sealed tomb.
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT

That's probably how dentistry was in the 1800s, before they had anesthetics. That's how I felt.
JERRY WAINWRIGHT

We're not mature enough yet. But to be 7-4 [with our strong] schedule ... speaks an awful lot about ...
JERRY WAINWRIGHT

I like to sing to Verdi, I like singing to Sibelius, and Mahler maybe.
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT

My love of maple syrup. I've been known to knock back a can over a couple days: A swig here, a s...
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT

I think the minute you mention death, people run for the hills - unless it's heavy metal. People...
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT

After years of hotels, I'm horribly inept at cleaning up after myself.
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT

I'm in hotel rooms night after night, playing a lot of the same venues as my dad and carrying th...
MARTHA WAINWRIGHT

We made a pact to light up and then we were whisked away.
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT

We never gave ourselves a chance to win. But I don't think we have despair in our game; it's frustra...
JERRY WAINWRIGHT

Whenever that phone rings, I'm always looking. I could be going in in the fifth inning or the fourth...
ADAM WAINWRIGHT

Shooting percentages can be misleading. Their steals led directly to baskets. I think they've done t...
JERRY WAINWRIGHT

There's prejudice everywhere. I don't think the music industry is as bad as the movie indust...
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT

They humbled us on the glass.
JERRY WAINWRIGHT

The game was dictated at the free-throw line. You can't miss 11 and win at this level.
JERRY WAINWRIGHT

Sammy played 38 minutes against their best player and never once [complained]. He did everything we ...
JERRY WAINWRIGHT

You're going to be in front of full arenas from now on. I think you have to make that another whole ...
JERRY WAINWRIGHT

There are some incredible swings this season. More so than I've ever seen.
JERRY WAINWRIGHT

They're (Wake Forest) going to have a terrific year, and obviously this is a great confidence builde...
JERRY WAINWRIGHT

The only thing I would say is that when you play Wake, you have to pick your poison. We tried to clo...
JERRY WAINWRIGHT

The biggest thing, when you play teams like this, you've got to stand in the middle of the ring. You...
JERRY WAINWRIGHT

Love is not a victory march, its a cold and its a broken hallelujah
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT

I'm your knight in shining armor. I'm here to save you from Linkin Park.
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT

I am disappointed that my parents didn't give birth to a porn star
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT

All humans realize they are loved when witnessing the dawn; early morning is the truimph of good ove...
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT

I was in the forest jumping around daffodils while everyone was high on heroin.
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT

This song kinda matches this place,
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT

Everything's been fair game in our family,
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT

His ankle is really not swollen, but we have to get it evaluated, both he and Marlon.
JERRY WAINWRIGHT

I've paid the price; I definitely have a reputation that precedes me, and there is a camp that p...
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT

I've always gravitated towards opera, and the Royal Opera House is quite possibly the greatest o...
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT

Crazy as it sounds, I'm a believer in destiny and serendipity, and I have had cosmic experiences...
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT

To me, songs come of their own volition - and with an open-ended philosophy.
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT

Dinner at eight was okaybefore the toast full of gleams.It was great until those old magazinesgot us...
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT

We made a pact to light up and then we were whisked away,
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT

I definitely was always expected and encouraged to be a songwriter from a very young age, ... But re...
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT

“It seems like the older I get, the more unreal the world becomes.”
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT

In the music business, to survive for so long, you have to be able to cut off from your emotions som...
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT

In retrospect, I'm really shocked at how far I put my heart out there on the line with 'Prim...
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT

'Prima Donna' is my kind of love song to opera but it's not the full experience.
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT

The artist who gave me the most inspiration and direction, especially as a singer - and I absolutely...
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT

Adversity is only yet another means to remind us of 'How Truly Awsome We All Are'!
W.O. WAINWRIGHT

I definitely have a Luddite's approach to what's going on. I find that as I get older, I get...
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT

I've developed into quite a swan. I'm one of those people that will probably look better and...
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT

I very much faced my mother's death with hard, arduous and time-consuming labor. The more I woul...
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT

I wanted to be heard myself, which is hard in a household of people who were very showy. It forced m...
MARTHA WAINWRIGHT

I certainly hope it will do what people say that it will do,
WILLIAM WAINWRIGHT

Dinner at eight was okay
before the toast full of gleams.
It was great until those old magaz...
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT

Peace is a militant state, which is not secured by wishful thinking.... If we are to be sure of our ...
GENERAL JONATHAN MAYHEW WAINWRIGHT

Displaying a bland, even an eerie, disregard for what appeared to be the facts of the situation, he fell back on an old habit of looking ahead to the next defeat.

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Displaying a bland, even an eerie, disregard for what appeared to be the facts of the situation, he fell back on an old habit of looking ahead to the next defeat.

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