Loudon Wainwright III Quotes
It's hard for the modern generation to understand Thoreau, who lived beside a pond but didn't own water skis or a snorkel.
I wasn't in a lot of rock and roll bands. I was in jug bands and things when I was in 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
As it turns out, three of my four kids are professional singers. And they're really interesting, good singers.
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.
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.
Who was that fatman buried in your place? Just another imitator, plastic surgeons did his face.
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.
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.
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.
After a war, after a concentration camp, I find it's not too difficult to be happy.
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.
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.
