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Loudon Wainwright III Quotes

If you're 28 and singing about being over the hill, you're pretending. When you're 67 and singing about it, you know what you're talking about.

Loudon Wainwright III

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: american
Birth: September 5, 1946

Topics

Singing Talking You Know Hill Over

My point was that it's hard to make good films, but I'm not under any illusion that you do all the time.

Good Time You Illusion Hard Point

You never know when you're going to be considered un-hip... The people that really pass judgment on you really have nothing to do with what you do, usually.

People You Know Nothing Never Going

The school in the Yorkshire mining village in which my father grew up in the 1920s and 1930s allowed only a few children to go to high school, and my father was not one of them. He spent much of his time as a young man repairing this deprivation, mostly at night school.

Father Children Time Man School

No one should be allowed to stand for Parliament without proof that he has taken responsibility for other people.

John Rhys-Davies

Responsibility People Stand Without

Our priority has always been to have the lowest cost so we can be comfortable with weak freight rates. A big part of having the lowest cost is maintaining the largest network, and this means growing market share.

Growing Comfortable Weak Always Cost

I'll still make movies for studios, but my editing process will be much further removed from the studio system. Because I don't understand it. I don't understand the whole testing-numbers thing. It is not how I want to make movies. So if that's how they do it, then I don't think I want to do it.

Think Process Want Movies Understand

If people stop being interested, it's because you haven't written a good enough album. Music will always be the most powerful thing. It doesn't matter what record labels or journalists say. It's the song.

Good Music People Song You Powerful

One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.

Robert A. Heinlein

Life Good Happy Being Happy Others

I love being a troubadour. I travel around the world with my wife and play little theaters. We have a ball.

Love Wife Travel World Play Little

The world has lost faith in American leadership, and the threats are mounting.

Michael T. Flynn

Leadership Faith World American Lost

Compassion is a call, a demand of nature, to relieve the unhappy as hunger is a natural call for food.

Nature Food Compassion Unhappy Call

If you've got a lot of children, I think you let the other children bring them up more and you just sort of step in and do stuff like every now and again.

Children Step Think You Now More

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