Rufus Wainwright
Rufus Wainwright
Rufus McGarrigle Wainwrightis an American-Canadian singer-songwriter and composer. He has recorded seven albums of original music and numerous tracks on compilations and film soundtracks. He has also written a classical opera and set Shakespeare sonnets to music for a theater piece by Robert Wilson...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionOpera Singer
Date of Birth22 July 1973
CityRhinebeck, NY
CountryCanada
artist torn
As an artist, you put so much into what you do and it can all be torn down in a nanosecond.
artist young hedonistic
The more hedonistic you were, the better...I very much subscribed to that as a young artist.
art media snakes
All these poses of classical torture ruined my mind like a snake in the orchard. I did go from wanting to be someone, now I'm drunk and wearing flip-flops on Fifth Avenue.
thinking artist self
I don't know if it will be my big comeback, but I think it is a statement - that I am a self-sustaining, vibrant, long-term artist, and I'm not going away! And if you don't give me credit, then the musical gods will!
artist degrees answers
You know the question: 'How do you get to Carnegie Hall?' Answer: 'Practise?' Well, in my case, I got there by not practising. I didn't finish my music degree. And when I got into the pop world, I decided not to conform because I figured that the point of being an artist was that you shouldn't be like anyone else.
art new-york believe
New York is not the centre for American culture and art that it once was because of the forces of conservatism. Giuliani, capitalism - and then there was 9/11. I really believe that if I leave, it will suffer! Maybe that's why I love it here, because I feel wanted.
hate believe artist
The thing I hate most is false modesty. The artists who are, like, 'Oh, you know, I'm really not that good. Oh, I can't believe I'm here.' I find it vaguely sinister, even.
inspiration artist singers
The artist who gave me the most inspiration and direction, especially as a singer - and I absolutely consider myself a singer, 100 percent - is Nina Simone. She's my ultimate pianist-singer-type person.
artist want
But I want to deepen as an artist, and working with Shakespeare definitely points in that direction.
art worry hook
I'll be honest, I worry sometimes about what I've done. I have tied my whole person to my art and, whatever it takes to get that hook, I will go there and do it.
dinner eight full great toast until
Dinner at eight was okaybefore the toast full of gleams.It was great until those old magazinesgot us started up again.Actually it was probably me again.
light pact
We made a pact to light up and then we were whisked away,
genius feels
Everything I do, I feel is genius. Whether it is or it isn't.
wall biblical thinking
But I don't even think you hear me at all Under your medieval ceiling behind your biblical wall