Loudon Wainwright III Quotes About School

Quotes about: School

• 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.

  Loudon Wainwright III

  Drama, School, Kids

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. January 21, 2010.

• 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

  School, Rocks, Rock And Roll

  "A 'Handsome' Tribute From Loudon Wainwright". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. August 19, 2009.

• Right away, I knew I didn't want to have that look of other guys with long hair and bell-bottom pants, because everybody else had that look. I kind of adopted my boarding-school look, which made me stand out. Then the next thing you know, the first song on my first record is a song called "School Days." It's about going to the boarding school I went to. So then I just started to write about myself. The very first song I ever wrote was about a guy I met in a boatyard that we were working in. So I've always had this thing about sticking to more or less what I knew.

  Loudon Wainwright III

  Song, Writing, School

  Source: www.avclub.com

• My father writings stuff was always his personal stuff, like about the day we had to put our dog down, or finding old photographs of his father, or passing a guy he went to boarding school with on a street in New York. Very specific, detailed, descriptive columns that he wrote. I think in a way, it could be argued that my best songs are that way too. They're almost journalistic in that they're very clear, and very specific, and they describe things.

  Loudon Wainwright III

  Dog, Song, Father

  Source: www.avclub.com

• 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 III

  Hero, School, Boys

  "Geoff Muldaur Takes Texas Sheiks On The Road". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. December 7, 2009.

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