Quotes by Loudon Wainwright III

Loudon Wainwright III

After a war, after a concentration camp, I find it’s not too difficult to be happy.

Difficult

Happiness

War

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

Interesting

Kids

Three

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.

Eerie

Old Habits

Doomsday is quite within our reach, if we will only stretch for it.

Doomsday

Future

Ifs

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.

Boys

Hero

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.

Drama

Kids

School

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.

Listening

Teenager

Thinking

I had a hip replacement a couple of years ago. I have a song about that. And why wouldn’t you? It strikes me that that was a huge event. It’s kind of funny and horrible and interesting, so why wouldn’t one write about that?

Couple

Song

Writing

I hated the idea that I would be like my father. Which is one of the reasons I decided I didn’t want to be a writer and wanted to be an actor instead. I wanted to go in a total different direction. But, of course, I ended up being a writer anyway.

Different

Father

Ideas

I have a song called “Men.” I mean, manhood and trying to be one, and failing as one, and trying to be a husband and a father, and failing at that. 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.

Father

Husband

Song

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Answers

Appreciate

Believe

Block

Blue

Bob

Boys

Brooks

Buried

Careers

Country

Couple

Different

Difficult

Dog

Done

Doomsday

Drama

Eerie

Eggs

Faces

Father

Firsts

Fun

Future

Grateful

Growing

Happiness

Hero

Hills

Home

House Of Cards

Husband

Ideas

Ifs

Interesting

Kids

Life Changing

Listening

Mean

Men

Mother

Nature

Nice

Old Habits

Parent

People

Plastic

Politics

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Quotes by Loudon Wainwright III

Loudon Wainwright III

After a war, after a concentration camp, I find it’s not too difficult to be happy.

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

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.

Doomsday is quite within our reach, if we will only stretch for it.

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.

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 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.

I had a hip replacement a couple of years ago. I have a song about that. And why wouldn’t you? It strikes me that that was a huge event. It’s kind of funny and horrible and interesting, so why wouldn’t one write about that?

I hated the idea that I would be like my father. Which is one of the reasons I decided I didn’t want to be a writer and wanted to be an actor instead. I wanted to go in a total different direction. But, of course, I ended up being a writer anyway.

I have a song called “Men.” I mean, manhood and trying to be one, and failing as one, and trying to be a husband and a father, and failing at that. 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.

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