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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
It's only in mirrors that people get old.
— Marty Rubin
It's hard for the modern generation to understand Thoreau, who lived beside a pond but didn't own water skis or a snorkel.
— Loudon Wainwright III
Doomsday is quite within our reach, if we will only stretch for it.
— Loudon Wainwright III
As theater artists, it's a great luxury to have time.
— Jonathan Freeman
When you make a record, you listen to it literally hundreds of times. When it's done and you can't do anything else, I never listen to my records.
— Loudon Wainwright III
I'm always asked if the songs that I write are therapeutic, and my answer is a quick no. In fact, it could be argued that they exacerbate my neurosis.
— Loudon Wainwright III
Singing's not my real passion.
— Skrillex
When I think of the word "organic," I think of natural, wholesome, and fundamental.That's exactly what I want my children's education to be like. — Tamara L. Chilver
Who was that fatman buried in your place? Just another imitator, plastic surgeons did his face.
— Loudon Wainwright III
When the zipper snaps open, Ben pauses, his breath hot in my ear. "Janelle Tenner," he whispers. "I fucking love you.
— Elizabeth Norris
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.
— Loudon Wainwright III
I think I'm the oldest new Bob Dylan around. I predate Bruce Springsteen, Steve Forbat and John Prine. I was probably the first of the new Bob Dylans.
— Loudon Wainwright III
I'm a very spiritual person, and proud of my Mormon roots.
— Jon Huntsman Jr.
Why do tired people sing?
— Alice Walker
As it turns out, three of my four kids are professional singers. And they're really interesting, good singers.
— 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
Why kill good people just to get a bad man?
— Loudon Wainwright III
When my mother died, and when my father died, it's big. Our parents are giants; they're titans of our lives, so of course it's going to be a big deal.
— Loudon Wainwright III
Hope is the best contraceptive.
— Marian Wright Edelman
I love failure. It's stuff that I'm thinking about all the time in my life, so it would make sense to me anyway to write about it.
— Loudon Wainwright III
What was punk all about? To me, it was if you really want to do something, go ahead and do it.
— Peter Hook
If you're 28 and singing about being over the hill, you're pretending. When you're 67 and singing about it, you know what you're talking about.
— Loudon Wainwright III
When a parent dies, the whole house of cards comes down.
— Loudon Wainwright III
After a war, after a concentration camp, I find it's not too difficult to be happy.
— Loudon Wainwright III
