Loudon Wainwright III Quotes - Page 2

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• Who was that fatman buried in your place? Just another imitator, plastic surgeons did his face.

  Loudon Wainwright III

  Faces, Plastic, Buried

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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.

  Loudon Wainwright III

  Song, Life Changing, Careers

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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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  Grateful, Years, Eggs

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• When a parent dies, the whole house of cards comes down.

  Loudon Wainwright III

  House Of Cards, Parent, Whole

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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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  Mean, Blue, Shining

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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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  Kids, Interesting, Three

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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.

  Loudon Wainwright III

  Teenager, Thinking, Listening

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

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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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  Men, Thinking, Careers

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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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  Country, Believe, Brooks

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• I'm writing about what's happening to me now. I mean, 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?

  Loudon Wainwright III

  Song, Couple, Writing

  Source: www.avclub.com

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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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  Nice, People, Appreciate

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• You just do the best you can. It doesn't necessarily mean that you have to get worse the more you do it. It can get better, I think... aspects of it, anyway. I mean, I don't write as much as I used to. But I don't do a lot of things as much as I used to. So that's the natural order of things, too. You're more or less living in the present. You're just trying to get that next song, whatever it is. And not think too much about what happened on the last record, or the record you made 20 years ago, because those are over with. Those are done.

  Loudon Wainwright III

  Song, Writing, Mean

  Source: www.avclub.com

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