"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?"

-- Loudon Wainwright III

#Song Quotes #Couple Quotes #Writing Quotes

“Luckily I've had a lot of great friends that I've had for a long time.”
“I think there are different ways of being rigorous, and I am asking people to be as rigorous in their pleasure as in their criticism.”
“Yeah I live of my music. Why does everyone ask me that? Is my music that absurd that nobody could possibly be buying it?”
“The plane as an object has been a huge effort to make. It is a sculpture, a technological invention, a piece of aviation culture. But really, it only exists to be inserted into a variety of landscapes, to be a catalyst, to offset them.”

Source : Interview with Christopher Bollen, believermag.com. January 1, 2004.
“I'm the last person who has any desire to instruct anybody in shame. That's no errand for me.”

Source : Interview with David Steinberg, www.nearbycafe.com. May 25, 1994.
“Shepherds don't look after sheep because they love them - although I do think some shepherds like their sheep too much. They look after their sheep so they can, first, fleece them and second, turn them into meat. That's much more like the priesthood as I know it.”
“I think the most fun I ever had was playing King Arthur in Spamalot on the West End.”

Source : "Alan Dale: The Nicest Bad Guy in The Biz". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, www.etonline.com. February 6, 2013.
“Carnegie Hall was real fabulous, but you know, it ain't as big as the Grand Ole Opry.”

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