Top 34 Loudon Wainwright III Quotes

#1. 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.

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#2. 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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#3. 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.

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#4. 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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#5. 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.

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#6. If I had five minutes to live, I don't think I'd be bothered singing a song. I'd be dead, so it won't really matter. I'd have a glass of wine and a cigarette.

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#7. It's hard for the modern generation to understand Thoreau, who lived beside a pond but didn't own water skis or a snorkel.

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#8. 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.

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#9. I wasn't in a lot of rock and roll bands. I was in jug bands and things when I was in school.

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#10. As it turns out, three of my four kids are professional singers. And they're really interesting, good singers.

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#11. 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.

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#12. 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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#13. I hated the idea that I would be like my father. Which is one of the reasons I decided I didn't want to be a writer and wanted to be an actor instead. I wanted to go in a total different direction. But, of course, I ended up being a writer anyway.

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#14. 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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#15. Doomsday is quite within our reach, if we will only stretch for it.

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#16. I've never really suffered complete and utter writer's block, really. I equate it with sex: in the beginning of my career, I was writing five songs a week; now, I occasionally write a song. But it's an exciting moment when it happens!

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#17. Displaying a bland, even an eerie, disregard for what appeared to be the facts of the situation, he fell back on an old habit of looking ahead to the next defeat.

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#18. 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.

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#19. 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.

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#20. 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.

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#21. When you start your career, you have to figure out a way to separate yourself from the pack. So I went for a kind of preppy, psycho-killer look: I had short hair, grey flannel pants, and a button-down shirt. I think it worked, because nobody else was looking that way at that time.

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#22. 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.

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#23. I guess I can be surprised I'm alive. I'm taking a little better care of myself than when I was a young person. My father died when he was 63. My mother made it to 74. My grandparents, God, they were dropping like flies.

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#24. When you start performing, you realize that you have to separate yourself from the pack. So I would never wear bell-bottoms, which everybody else was wearing. I had short hair - and to see a 21-year-old guy walk onstage without longish hair was, in itself, weird. Every entertainer needs a shtick.

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

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#26. Why kill good people just to get a bad man?

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#27. I've been writing about growing old for some time, really from the beginning of my career. It's something I'm apparently hung up about and now that I am old, hopefully I speak about it with some authority.

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#28. I think I'm great. I mean, I might as well come out and say it. Like most people, I have an ego and I'm in show business, so you have to have kind of a healthy, conflagrated ego to a degree. On the other hand, I'm consumed, like a lot of people, with self-doubt and loathing and guilt.

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#29. 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.

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

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#31. 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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#32. I don't write about anything I don't want to write about. I like to think I could write about anything pretty much that I chose to. I have been asked to write songs about specific things, and I've always been able to come up with the goods.

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#33. 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?

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#34. After a war, after a concentration camp, I find it's not too difficult to be happy.

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