Rufus Wainwright Quotes

I've developed into quite a swan. I'm one of those people that will probably look better and better as I get older - until I drop dead of beauty.

I may not lead the most dramatic life, but in my brain it's War and Peace everyday.

Rufus Wainwright’s cover of “Hallelujah

When some early Tom Waits demos were released against his wishes in the early 1990s, he is supposed to have said: ‘Demo tapes are like baby pictures, everybody’s got them, you just don’t want them passed around.

When I say that you can hear God in ‘One Man Guy’ by Rufus Wainwright, I do not mean to suggest that there is an old chap with a beard – a divine Willie Nelson, if you will – warbling along with them.

There’s no life without humour. It can make the wonderful moments of life truly glorious, and the tragic moments bearable.

J. S. Bach’s Cello Suites, the Aria from the Goldberg Variations and the ‘Erbarme Dich’ from his St Matthew Passion; Chopin’s Nocturnes; Messiaen’s Quatour pour la Fin de Temps; Górecki’s Third Symphony – composers have always nourished the interlacing of beauty and sadness. Lyrics only add more melancholy content: Richard Strauss’s ‘Morgen’ and the Vier Letzte Lieder; Tom Waits’ Closing Time and the songs of Rufus Wainwright; Elgar’s The Dream of Gerontius; the strains and pains of sex and death in Wagner’s