Top 38 Martha Wainwright Quotes
#1. You know, people always ask me how I describe my music. First of all I tell them that's their job and then that also one day I hope to have things referred to as Martha Wainwright -esque.
Martha Wainwright
#3. Religion is usually nothing but a supplement to or even a substitute for education, and nothing is religious in the strict sense which is not a product of freedom. Thus one can say: The freer, the more religious; and the more education, the less religion.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
#4. I'm trying to solidify a long-term career, because I have no other skills and no other abilities.
Martha Wainwright
#5. I have learned to write about things that are personal without objectifying anybody or anything, and that's been an important lesson for me. It's useful not to dump on people while simultaneously expressing a truth or a feeling if it's necessary, without diluting the intensity of the lyric.
Martha Wainwright
#6. For a truly effective social campaign, a brand needs to embrace the first principles of marketing, which involves brand definition and consistent storytelling.
Simon Mainwaring
#7. it was all so new to her, he guessed.
Anne Tyler
#8. I've always had a tendency to push the envelope as far as it can go without hurting someone's feelings.
Martha Wainwright
#9. Moving forward, investigative journalists need to train themselves to be media amphibians - just as comfortable with the classic verities of great journalism as they are with video, Twitter, Facebook, and, most importantly, citizen journalism.
Arianna Huffington
#10. I've always been given respect because I'm kind of mannish, and I'm not a great beauty. I've never played the coquette card because I'm no good at it.
Martha Wainwright
#11. It can often happen that motherhood can really stop a lot of women in their tracks and I wanted to try and keep working through that as much as I could.
Martha Wainwright
#12. I'm not very prolific. I'm not good at sitting down as an artist and saying 'Okay, I need to put in my four hours today.'
Martha Wainwright
#13. If there's one thing that differentiates me from the rest of my family it's the rock element. I hung out with friends who like punk rock a lot. Not getting a big record deal, and having a hard time for years, it means you have to prove yourself and scratch your way up from nothing.
Martha Wainwright
#14. Rasta is to know. Rasta is to answer, which is the final step.
Burning Spear
#15. I always seem to write personal songs; that's always been my go-to thing, to write about what I'm experiencing.
Martha Wainwright
#16. Being a woman in music and having kids, it's very hard to do both without neglecting one a bit.
Martha Wainwright
#17. I went to college and stage school, and thought about acting, but ... I just don't like actors very much! They're not as fun as musicians.
Martha Wainwright
#18. I've spent the first part of my life in the shadow of my family. I'm not going to live in the shadow of my husband.
Martha Wainwright
#19. I think my mother was always worried about me when she was alive.
Martha Wainwright
#20. There are people who have tremendously important things to say, but they say it so poorly that nobody would ever want to read it.
Theodore Sturgeon
#21. I tried to find a way out in many ways, but it all caught up with me. Once I realised I could sing and write songs, it was just so much easier to do than anything else!
Martha Wainwright
#22. Cause you know that its a fool, who plays it cool, by making his world a little colder ...
- The Beatles
The Beatles
#23. Don't unpack your heart. One detail tells the truth.
Ian McEwan
#25. I play in bars all the time in the States, so I'm kind of used to it. I've just got off the road with the family in Australia, and I enjoyed it but it feels really good to be getting back to doing this stuff.
Martha Wainwright
#26. I was not that pretty a girl and I was never pursued as a teenager or young woman, so I was used to having no shame and trying to get people to love me.
Martha Wainwright
#28. Magnus glared at him out of gold-green eyes. "If I wanted to lie on a couch and
complain to someone about my parents, I'd hire a psychiatrist."
"Ah," said Jace. "But my services are free."
"I heard that about you.
Cassandra Clare
#29. I'm in hotel rooms night after night, playing a lot of the same venues as my dad and carrying the guitar that used to be his. We're the same person. I don't know if he realises how much of a legacy he has left to his children.
Martha Wainwright
#30. My childhood definitely revolved around my relationship with my brother. I wanted to be different. I wanted to find my way of being as intriguing and interesting as he was.
Martha Wainwright
#31. I was kind of a misfit, and when my mother died, I had to become an adult, something that I never thought I would ever be.
Martha Wainwright
#32. I wanted to be heard myself, which is hard in a household of people who were very showy. It forced me to find myself and define a personality and a way of being different, and that's a thing that's going to help me to survive in a world of many people playing the guitar.
Martha Wainwright
#33. I've learnt to hide my tears on stage. They make people uncomfortable.
Martha Wainwright
#34. went to the Rock to hide my face And the Rock cried out, "No Hiding Place, There's no Hiding Place down here.
Ray Bradbury
#35. Nothing is more horrible than my self in the mirror of hysteria. Nothing is more vulgar than my style in the hands of another. Toimitate me is to punish me.
Karl Kraus
#36. I have a tendency to run after people who are completely unattainable and uninterested and make a complete fool of myself.
Martha Wainwright
#37. You have to be willing to give a lot to be in a relationship with me because a lot of the time it's about me.
Martha Wainwright
#38. [God] disciplines us for our good, that we may share His holiness.
Scott Hahn
