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Rufus Wainwright
Canadian
Musician
Born:
Jul 22
,
1973
Always
Life
Love
Me
Think
You
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Life is a game and true love is a trophy.
Rufus Wainwright
Life
Love
True Love
Game
Love Is
Life Is A
Trophy
True
There's no life without humour. It can make the wonderful moments of life truly glorious, and it can make tragic moments bearable.
Rufus Wainwright
Life
Wonderful
Glorious
Humour
No Life
Bearable
Make
Without
Truly
Tragic
Moments
My love of maple syrup. I've been known to knock back a can over a couple days: A swig here, a swig there, and next thing you know it's gone. It's a habit I have to stave off. I don't want to lose all my teeth.
Rufus Wainwright
Love
You
Lose
Gone
Back
Teeth
Syrup
Habit
Knock
Over
Days
Know
Couple
Known
Been
Off
Want
Next
Next Thing
Maple
Thing
Here
Unless I have my aunt or my boyfriend to take care of me, I'm a little pathetic.
Rufus Wainwright
Me
Care
Unless
Take
Take Care
Boyfriend
Aunt
Pathetic
Little
Being uncool is being pretty much the coolest you can be.
Rufus Wainwright
You
Pretty
Being
Much
Being Pretty
Cool
Coolest
When I'm in the classical world, I really treat it as exactly classical and I don't try and spruce it up or jazz it up or make it easier for the masses.
Rufus Wainwright
World
Treat
Try
Jazz
Easier
Exactly
Classical
Masses
Make
Up
Really
After years of hotels, I'm horribly inept at cleaning up after myself.
Rufus Wainwright
Myself
Cleaning
Horribly
Hotels
Inept
Years
Up
After
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
You
Business
Writing
Output
Never
Never Stop
Always
Am
Survive
Stop
Want
To Survive
Creating
Working
Keep
Need
When I wrote the opera, I made a deal with myself that for at least an hour a day I would work on it, even if it meant just sitting on my piano bench, staring into space and thinking about it. It's about keeping it regular, like your bowel movements - let's get real: it's your bodily artistic movements! It comes from the same place.
Rufus Wainwright
Work
Myself
Day
Space
Made
Thinking
Bench
Would
About
Piano
Hour
Like
Opera
Wrote
Deal
Least
Real
Get
Same
Sitting
Artistic
Just
Movements
Place
Bodily
Regular
Meant
Your
Even
Staring
Keeping
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
Life
Health
You
Trials
Mother
Personal Life
Type
Tribulations
Kind
Give
Voice
Piano
Had
Nevertheless
Know
Always
Occur
Due
Go
Personal
Just
Afraid
Process
Therapeutic
Professional
Describe
Basically
Needed
I wish I could just relax sometimes and make some money, but I always feel like I have to prove some kind of big, profound point.
Rufus Wainwright
Money
Sometimes
Relax
Wish
Big
Kind
Some
Point
Could
Feel
Like
Make
Always
Prove
Just
Profound
I have earned hundreds of thousands of pounds, but I can't seem to get to grips with money.
Rufus Wainwright
Money
Earned
Hundreds
Hundreds Of Thousands
Thousands
Seem
Pounds
Get
Grips
I am ridiculously high-maintenance.
Rufus Wainwright
Am
Ridiculously
Every video I do is over budget by the time I walk on set. I am massively extravagant in my personal habits.
Rufus Wainwright
Time
Walk
Every
Extravagant
Habits
Over
Budget
Massively
Am
Personal
Video
Set
By The Time
My parents were serious working musicians, but they were not stars - not like pop stars that you have now. They had to make a living and that meant touring, working hard, going on the road - and we were roped in.
Rufus Wainwright
You
Musicians
Parents
Living
Stars
Had
Touring
Road
Like
Make
Were
Going
Pop
Working
Meant
Working Hard
Hard
Pop Stars
Serious
Now
I made the decision to take on board the critical feedback. Reviews are something you can easily ignore as a performer or writer but I chose to not ignore them here and I think that I benefited. I think I'm stronger for it - and I have a tougher skin as a result.
Rufus Wainwright
You
Result
Feedback
Decision
Made
Stronger
Skin
Think
Easily
Critical
Something
Tougher
Writer
Take
Performer
Reviews
Board
Them
Ignore
Chose
Here
Writing an opera and premiering in England, you could say I was going right into the eye of the storm and I came out successfully. A little tattered and bruised, but so what, I made it.
Rufus Wainwright
You
Writing
Made
Say
Eye
Out
Bruised
Could
Opera
Came
Going
Storm
Little
Successfully
England
Right
I like to try new things.
Rufus Wainwright
Try
New Things
New
Like
Things
The moment something happens to one you love, it's twenty times more intense. You experience pain and enlightenment on a much vaster scale.
Rufus Wainwright
Love
You
Experience
Pain
Scale
Something
More
Times
Intense
Happens
Much
Moment
Twenty
Enlightenment
I have a good face for what I do.
Rufus Wainwright
Good
Face
I've developed into quite a swan. I'm one of those people that will probably look better and better as I get older until I drop dead of beauty.
Rufus Wainwright
People
Better
Will
Drop
Beauty
Older
Those
Developed
Look
Until
Dead
Get
Quite
Swan
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
Life
Me
Crazy
My Life
Baby
Destiny
All My Life
Cosmic
Something
Had
Written
Stuff
Look
Opera
Greater
Sounds
Experiences
Meant
Serendipity
Believer
Why be in music, why write songs, if you can't use them to explore life or an idealized vision of life? I believe a lot of our lives are spent asleep, and what I've been trying to do is hold on to those moments when a little spark cuts through the fog and nudges you.
Rufus Wainwright
Life
Music
You
Vision
Fog
Believe
Our
Our Lives
Spent
Those
Through
Write
Songs
Idealized
Been
Lot
Trying
Hold
Little
Them
Spark
Cuts
Asleep
Explore
Use
Moments
Why
Lives
I am undefinable. I don't fit into any particular category.
Rufus Wainwright
Particular
Category
Am
Fit
Any
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
Time
Great
Relationship
People
Legend
Other
Say
Kind
All-Time
More
Shall
Arguably
Between
Judy
Judy Garland
Camp
Lot
Viable
Where
Bigger
Them
Then
Certain
Certainly
Star
Garland
My mother's songs are really turning out to be masterpieces. I have inherited this incredible legacy and am so fortunate to bathe in her sensibilities. It is tinged with tragedy. I'd much rather she was here in person, but there is still a positive force to come out of her death and that is having the gift of music that she gave.
Rufus Wainwright
Positive
Death
Music
Gift
Mother
Gave
Incredible
Bathe
Out
Rather
Having
Songs
Come
She
Force
Masterpieces
Am
Still
Tragedy
Legacy
Person
Sensibilities
Much
Turning
Really
Fortunate
Inherited
Her
Here
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