Rufus Wainwright Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• 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

  Writing, Creating, Needs

• I'd be hanging out in my bathrobe all day, stinky, just writing, and my mom allowed me to do this-as long as I was writing songs. She said, 'As long as you're seriously working on music, I'll support you. Don't get a job, because if you work, it will crush you.

  Rufus Wainwright

  Crush, Mom, Song

• 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

  Writing, Eye, Storm

• I should write a musical. That is probably one of the final areas that I should pay attention to, because it does kind of involve everything. It's got theatre, it's got young, pretty people... And it's got money!

  Rufus Wainwright

  Writing, People, Musical

• I strive for what you do find in Shakespeare's work - that there is a definite humanity and a definite character behind the writing in the sonnets, and it's very real because it's so deeply personal. I try to aspire to that in what I do.

  Rufus Wainwright

  Real, Writing, Character

  "If Music Be the Food of Love, Play on, Rufus Wainwright". Interview with Jacob Blickenstaff, www.motherjones.com. June 25, 2016.

• 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

  Song, Writing, Fire

• Why be in music, why write songs, if you can't use them to explore life or an idealized vision of life?

  Rufus Wainwright

  Song, Writing, Vision

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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