Martha Wainwright quote: "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."

I'm in hotel rooms night after night, playing a lot of the same venues as my dad and carrying th...
MARTHA WAINWRIGHT

Writing an opera and premiering in England, you could say I was going right into the eye of the stor...
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT

As long as they say bullpen in St. Louis, then I'm all for it. I still think of myself as a starter....
ADAM WAINWRIGHT

I think I can do way better. I'm not real pleased with today. I got out of some situations and pitch...
ADAM WAINWRIGHT

I think the years of toiling around in the minors have really helped.
ADAM WAINWRIGHT

Today, I really struggled staying back on the rubber and getting the ball down. But when I did, you ...
ADAM WAINWRIGHT

It was nice of Jason to let me start that game. He didn't have to let me do that. It was nice to get...
ADAM WAINWRIGHT

I try to not to think about the pressure. I don't want any more pressure on me. I just want to pitch...
ADAM WAINWRIGHT

I learned a lot from him.
ADAM WAINWRIGHT

I go in thinking about whatever they'll let me do at the big-league level. You never know what happe...
ADAM WAINWRIGHT

For the most part my year went pretty good. I had a couple abysmal starts that really ruined my stat...
ADAM WAINWRIGHT

If I play a bad round, which I've been having lately, Mulder will let me have it. I've heard his who...
ADAM WAINWRIGHT

There is no such thing as bravery; only degrees of fear.
JOHN WAINWRIGHT

Everything I do, I feel is genius. Whether it is or it isn't.
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT

The magnificence of mountains, the serenity of nature - nothing is safe from the idiot marks of man'...
LOUDON WAINWRIGHT

Sometimes the cure for restlessness is rest.
COLLEEN WAINWRIGHT

I love stuff as much as the next guy, but Ive come to understand that, regardless of the cost of a...
COLLEEN WAINWRIGHT

I've written songs for Shirley Bassey, Marianne Faithfull, and Linda Thompson. I sort of focus o...
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT

Life is a game and true love is a trophy.
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT

You know the question: 'How do you get to Carnegie Hall?' Answer: 'Practise?' Well, ...
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT

My cheeks explode when I smile. That's why I have to look so nonplussed.
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT

I'm very much a romantic. I'm highly attuned to an older sensibility, which I believe is ali...
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT

Why be in music, why write songs, if you can't use them to explore life or an idealized vision o...
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT

I believe a lot of our lives are spent asleep, and what I've been trying to do is hold on to tho...
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT

I'm your knight in shining armor. I'm here to save you from Linkin Park.
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT

My mother's songs are really turning out to be masterpieces. I have inherited this incredible le...
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT

I bemoan the fact that all my famous friends have places in St. Bart's and I have to go to Monta...
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT

Some people go to Berlin to get more cutting edge; I went and started wearing lederhosen and going t...
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT

There's no life without humour. It can make the wonderful moments of life truly glorious, and it...
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT

Being uncool is being pretty much the coolest you can be.
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT

I definitely consider 'Poses' - the whole album in fact - to be kind of a miracle. Like the ...
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT

Places that have experienced great defeat experience a kind of rebirth, which I think America has to...
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT

I am regarded as a usurper, as an imposter and dilettante, because I do technically come from the wr...
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT

For better or worse, I've always been curious musically. Whether it's opera or Judy Garland ...
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT

This is pretty much what journals are all about, at least to me. I knew as I wrote them that even th...
COLLEEN WAINWRIGHT

There's no life without humour. It can make the wonderful moments of life truly glorious, and it can...
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT

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

Let the little fairy in you fly!
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT

I've developed into quite a swan. I'm one of those people that will probably look better and better ...
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT

Even the great get greater by doing more of it.
COLLEEN WAINWRIGHT

Reading is no substitute for action.
COLLEEN WAINWRIGHT

Being friendless taught me how to be a friend. Funny how that works.
COLLEEN WAINWRIGHT

I'd be hanging out in my bathrobe all day, stinky, just writing, and my mom allowed me to do this-as...
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT

The Germany I was enthused with was more old fashioned and kind of romantic. I just got there, and t...
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT

I think everybody identified at a pretty young age that I was fairly entranced with myself. And that...
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT

I've had my ups and downs, and I definitely have a sense - in America, especially - that once yo...
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT

Arguably, the relationship between Liza Minnelli and Judy Garland is one of the great mother-daughte...
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT

The thing I hate most is false modesty. The artists who are, like, 'Oh, you know, I'm really...
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT

In the present world, this technological, psychotic, politicised, nonsensical world, you have to bel...
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT

I'm definitely a fan of juxtaposition. Using the most beautiful line to say the most horrific th...
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT

I could always escape into this demi-monde of homosexuality, which I feel really indebted to. It sto...
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT

I'm hyper light-sensitive and must sleep in the equivalent of a sealed tomb.
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT

That's probably how dentistry was in the 1800s, before they had anesthetics. That's how I felt.
JERRY WAINWRIGHT

We're not mature enough yet. But to be 7-4 [with our strong] schedule ... speaks an awful lot about ...
JERRY WAINWRIGHT

I like to sing to Verdi, I like singing to Sibelius, and Mahler maybe.
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT

My love of maple syrup. I've been known to knock back a can over a couple days: A swig here, a s...
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT

I think the minute you mention death, people run for the hills - unless it's heavy metal. People...
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT

After years of hotels, I'm horribly inept at cleaning up after myself.
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT

Displaying a bland, even an eerie, disregard for what appeared to be the facts of the situation, he ...
LOUDON WAINWRIGHT

We made a pact to light up and then we were whisked away.
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT

We never gave ourselves a chance to win. But I don't think we have despair in our game; it's frustra...
JERRY WAINWRIGHT

Whenever that phone rings, I'm always looking. I could be going in in the fifth inning or the fourth...
ADAM WAINWRIGHT

Shooting percentages can be misleading. Their steals led directly to baskets. I think they've done t...
JERRY WAINWRIGHT

There's prejudice everywhere. I don't think the music industry is as bad as the movie indust...
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT

They humbled us on the glass.
JERRY WAINWRIGHT

The game was dictated at the free-throw line. You can't miss 11 and win at this level.
JERRY WAINWRIGHT

Sammy played 38 minutes against their best player and never once [complained]. He did everything we ...
JERRY WAINWRIGHT

You're going to be in front of full arenas from now on. I think you have to make that another whole ...
JERRY WAINWRIGHT

There are some incredible swings this season. More so than I've ever seen.
JERRY WAINWRIGHT

They're (Wake Forest) going to have a terrific year, and obviously this is a great confidence builde...
JERRY WAINWRIGHT

The only thing I would say is that when you play Wake, you have to pick your poison. We tried to clo...
JERRY WAINWRIGHT

The biggest thing, when you play teams like this, you've got to stand in the middle of the ring. You...
JERRY WAINWRIGHT

Love is not a victory march, its a cold and its a broken hallelujah
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT

I'm your knight in shining armor. I'm here to save you from Linkin Park.
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT

I am disappointed that my parents didn't give birth to a porn star
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT

All humans realize they are loved when witnessing the dawn; early morning is the truimph of good ove...
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT

I was in the forest jumping around daffodils while everyone was high on heroin.
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT

This song kinda matches this place,
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT

Everything's been fair game in our family,
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT

His ankle is really not swollen, but we have to get it evaluated, both he and Marlon.
JERRY WAINWRIGHT

I've paid the price; I definitely have a reputation that precedes me, and there is a camp that p...
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT

I've always gravitated towards opera, and the Royal Opera House is quite possibly the greatest o...
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT

Crazy as it sounds, I'm a believer in destiny and serendipity, and I have had cosmic experiences...
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT

To me, songs come of their own volition - and with an open-ended philosophy.
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT

Dinner at eight was okaybefore the toast full of gleams.It was great until those old magazinesgot us...
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT

We made a pact to light up and then we were whisked away,
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT

I definitely was always expected and encouraged to be a songwriter from a very young age, ... But re...
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT

“It seems like the older I get, the more unreal the world becomes.”
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT

In the music business, to survive for so long, you have to be able to cut off from your emotions som...
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT

In retrospect, I'm really shocked at how far I put my heart out there on the line with 'Prim...
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT

'Prima Donna' is my kind of love song to opera but it's not the full experience.
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT

The artist who gave me the most inspiration and direction, especially as a singer - and I absolutely...
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT

Adversity is only yet another means to remind us of 'How Truly Awsome We All Are'!
W.O. WAINWRIGHT

I definitely have a Luddite's approach to what's going on. I find that as I get older, I get...
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT

I've developed into quite a swan. I'm one of those people that will probably look better and...
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT

I very much faced my mother's death with hard, arduous and time-consuming labor. The more I woul...
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT

I certainly hope it will do what people say that it will do,
WILLIAM WAINWRIGHT

Dinner at eight was okay
before the toast full of gleams.
It was great until those old magaz...
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT

I don't claim to be a particularly good father. I'm flawed, let's say. I've certainl...
LOUDON WAINWRIGHT III

If I had five minutes to live, I don't think I'd be bothered singing a song. I'd be dead...
LOUDON WAINWRIGHT III

When you start your career, you have to figure out a way to separate yourself from the pack. So I we...
LOUDON WAINWRIGHT III

I don't think of myself as a folk singer per se, but I really like blues and string-band music. ...
LOUDON WAINWRIGHT III

I'm always asked if the songs that I write are therapeutic, and my answer is a quick no. In fact...
LOUDON WAINWRIGHT III

I wasn't in a lot of rock and roll bands. I was in jug bands and things when I was in school.
LOUDON WAINWRIGHT III

I think I'm great. I mean, I might as well come out and say it. Like most people, I have an ego ...
LOUDON WAINWRIGHT III

My music comes from country music. Merle Haggard is God, and I do believe that. I'm not too tune...
LOUDON WAINWRIGHT III

Family life is tough, I'll say that for it. But in my case, I've mined the family. In a sens...
LOUDON WAINWRIGHT III

The big things in the average person's life are the romances that they have - and then the destr...
LOUDON WAINWRIGHT III

Los Angeles, the sun shines a lot, and it's blue, and there's palm trees; it's a bit lik...
LOUDON WAINWRIGHT III

When my mother died, and when my father died, it's big. Our parents are giants; they're tita...
LOUDON WAINWRIGHT III

The process of spotting fear and refusing to obey it is the source of all true empowerment.
MARTHA BECK

There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into acti...
MARTHA GRAHAM

I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dis...
MARTHA WASHINGTON

The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances...
MARTHA WASHINGTON

I live a very dull life here... indeed I think I am more like a state prisoner than anything else.
MARTHA WASHINGTON

Good-looking individuals are treated better than homely ones in virtually every social situation, fr...
MARTHA BECK

Every day brings new choices.
MARTHA BECK

If anything, I'm constantly trying to figure out how to look chic with the minimal effort requir...
MARTHA HUNT

Citizenship is a tough occupation which obliges the citizen to make his own informed opinion and sta...
MARTHA GELLHORN

The only sin is mediocrity.
MARTHA GRAHAM

One reason most people never stop thinking is that mental frenzy keeps us from having to see the ups...
MARTHA BECK

I am not a rock star or a movie star; I'm a businessperson. I definitely know who my friends are...
MARTHA STEWART

Getting bogged down in old stories stops the flow of learning by censoring our perceptions, making u...
MARTHA BECK

To really boost your sense of self-efficacy, think of ways you could modify your usual tasks to suit...
MARTHA BECK

Everything I've ever taught in terms of self-help boils down to this - I cannot believe people k...
MARTHA BECK

There is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never ...
MARTHA GRAHAM

All mental hygiene is based on the core practice of doing nothing. Most of us are good at wasting ti...
MARTHA BECK

There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and ther...
MARTHA GRAHAM

Bloggers create kind of a popularity. But they are not the experts, and we have to understand that.
MARTHA STEWART

All that is important is this one moment in movement. Make the moment important, vital, and worth li...
MARTHA GRAHAM

I believe that we learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to ...
MARTHA GRAHAM

There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into actio...
MARTHA GRAHAM

Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance. Great dancers are great because of thei...
MARTHA GRAHAM

There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into actio...
MARTHA GRAHAM

Dance is the hidden language of the soul
MARTHA GRAHAM

I know enough to know that no woman should ever marry a man who hated his mother.
MARTHA GELLHORN

Remember the great film with Bette Davis, All About Eve? There's a scene after the scheming Eve stea...
MARTHA GRIMES

The greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumst...
MARTHA WASHINGTON

People may correctly remember the events of twenty years ago (a remarkable feat), but who remembers ...
MARTHA GELLHORN

America does not concern itself now with Impressionism. We own no involved philosophy. The psyche of...
MARTHA GRAHAM

We don't know who we are until we see what we can do.
MARTHA GRIMES

I see mysteries and complications wherever I look, and I have never met a steadily logical person.
MARTHA GELLHORN

Great dancers are not great because of their technique; they are great because of their passion.
MARTHA GRAHAM

We look at the dance to impart the sensation of living in an affirmation of life, to energize the sp...
MARTHA GRAHAM

Nothing is more revealing than movement.
MARTHA GRAHAM

Dance is the hidden language of the soul.
MARTHA GRAHAM

We look at the dance to impart the sensation of living in an affirmation of life, to energize the s...
MARTHA GRAHAM

You see, when weaving a blanket, an Indian woman leaves a flaw in the weaving of that blanket to let...
MARTHA GRAHAM

Man blames fate for other accidents but feels personally responsible for a hole-in-one.
MARTHA BECKMAN

Dance is the hidden language of the soul of the body.
MARTHA GRAHAM

I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispo...
MARTHA WASHINGTON

I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our disposi...
MARTHA WASHINGTON

But the life that no longer trust another human being and no longer forms ties to the political comm...
MARTHA NUSSBAUM

The body says what words cannot.
MARTHA GRAHAM

The body is shaped, disciplined, honored, and in time, trusted.
MARTHA GRAHAM

The body is a sacred garment.
MARTHA GRAHAM

I feel about aging the way William Saroyan said he felt about death: Everybody has to do it, but I a...
MARTHA BECK

I support Alice Waters in her desire that there be a vegetable garden at the White House. I don'...
MARTHA STEWART

If you're feeling intransigently ambivalent, it might pay to formally accept what's already ...
MARTHA BECK

Life is full of tough decisions, and nothing makes them easy. But the worst ones are really your per...
MARTHA BECK

I have a microphone on one ankle and an ankle bracelet on the other, so I'm well balanced today.
MARTHA STEWART

In New York, I get a tremendous amount of ideas by looking at the paintings and the sculptures, adap...
MARTHA STEWART

Almost all my middle-aged and elderly acquaintances, including me, feel about 25, unless we haven...
MARTHA BECK

Our culture has created two almost irreconcilable descriptions of a 'good woman.' The first ...
MARTHA BECK

In one century, we've added 28 years to our average life span - a change so rapid that our brain...
MARTHA BECK

I never stop making sure that what I say is the best of what could be said about a particular thing....
MARTHA STEWART

The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances.
MARTHA WASHINGTON

I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned...
MARTHA WASHINGTON

When your entire brain is active, that means you are taking everything in through all sense percepti...
MARTHA BECK

I did not want to be a tree, a flower or a wave. In a dancer's body, we as audience must see our...
MARTHA GRAHAM

If you're totally sedentary and eat 2,500 calories a day, don't instantly go to 1,200 calori...
MARTHA BECK

'Age' is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.
MARTHA GRAHAM

Much protective self-criticism stems from growing up around people who wouldn't or couldn't ...
MARTHA BECK

Hopeful thinking can get you out of your fear zone and into your appreciation zone.
MARTHA BECK

When you meet people, show real appreciation, then genuine curiosity.
MARTHA BECK

The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body.
MARTHA GRAHAM

Self-improvement books, friends, and polite strangers often tell soothing lies about our physical ap...
MARTHA BECK

All the things I love is what my business is all about.
MARTHA STEWART

I invented 'It's a good thing' before you were even born.
MARTHA STEWART

Everywhere I go, I always look for creative entrepreneurs, whether it's artisans and craftsmen, ...
MARTHA STEWART

Each generation is smarter than the generation before, and they need total diversion and encourageme...
MARTHA STEWART

I haven't been to Tasmania. I haven't been to the South Pole, and I haven't been to the ...
MARTHA STEWART

There are two kinds of people... There are the dreamers who go and buy, and there are the doers who ...
MARTHA STEWART

Everywhere I go, I always look for creative entrepreneurs, whether it's artisans and craftsmen, ...
MARTHA STEWART

Whether you're a programmer or a seamstress, it's all about new techniques, simplifying old ...
MARTHA STEWART

If you learn something new every day, you can teach something new every day.
MARTHA STEWART

So the pie isn't perfect? Cut it into wedges. Stay in control, and never panic.
MARTHA STEWART

The more you adapt, the more interesting you are.
MARTHA STEWART

I have cotton or flannel sheets, depending on the weather. They have to be ironed, and I get my bed ...
MARTHA STEWART

I'm never sick. Why get sick? It's a waste of time.
MARTHA STEWART

I get up really early, and I go to bed really late. Sometimes I get tired, but it's not importan...
MARTHA STEWART

I am often asked the question: 'What is your favorite type of food?' Although I always answe...
MARTHA STEWART

I catnap now and then, but I think while I nap, so it's not a waste of time.
MARTHA STEWART

The ultimate goal is to be an interesting, useful, wholesome person. If you're successful on top...
MARTHA STEWART

My new motto is: When you're through changing, you're through.
MARTHA STEWART

I'm very inspired by nature - you could say Mother Nature. I look at things around me and get al...
MARTHA STEWART

Without an open-minded mind, you can never be a great success.
MARTHA STEWART

You should feel good about making your home nicer for your family and your friends. You should feel ...
MARTHA STEWART

I love dessert. I can't be guilty about it because I have to taste everything. I experiment.
MARTHA STEWART

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.

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Martha Wainwright

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.

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