Loudon Wainwright III Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“The big things in the average person's life are the romances that they have - and then the destruction and loss of them. Parents, siblings, children, the death of parents, family tension... these are monumental things. They struck me as being interesting to write about. I didn't have a very exotic life, but all this stuff happened to me.”

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

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

“When a parent dies, the whole house of cards comes down.”

“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.”