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Top 25 Loudon Wainwright III Quotes (2025 Update)

Loudon Wainwright III Quote: “Doomsday is quite within our reach, if we will only stretch for it.”

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

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Loudon Wainwright III Quote: “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.”

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.”

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Loudon Wainwright III Quote: “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?”

3. “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?”

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Loudon Wainwright III Quote: “My music comes from country music. Merle Haggard is God, and I do believe that. I’m not too tuned in to country music. I don’t know who Brooks and Dunn are. I like Shania Twain, though!”

4. “My music comes from country music. Merle Haggard is God, and I do believe that. I’m not too tuned in to country music. I don’t know who Brooks and Dunn are. I like Shania Twain, though!”

— Loudon Wainwright III

Loudon Wainwright III Quote: “Why kill good people just to get a bad man?”

5. “Why kill good people just to get a bad man?”

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Loudon Wainwright III Quote: “When my mother died, and when my father died, it’s big. Our parents are giants; they’re titans of our lives, so of course it’s going to be a big deal.”

6. “When my mother died, and when my father died, it’s big. Our parents are giants; they’re titans of our lives, so of course it’s going to be a big deal.”

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Loudon Wainwright III Quote: “It’s hard for the modern generation to understand Thoreau, who lived beside a pond but didn’t own water skis or a snorkel.”

7. “It’s hard for the modern generation to understand Thoreau, who lived beside a pond but didn’t own water skis or a snorkel.”

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Loudon Wainwright III Quote: “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.”

8. “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.”

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Loudon Wainwright III Quote: “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.”

9. “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.”

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Loudon Wainwright III Quote: “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.”

10. “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.”

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Loudon Wainwright III Quote: “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.”

11. “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.”

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Loudon Wainwright III Quote: “When you have a song on the radio your career and your life changes maybe for the better and maybe for the not so good depending on how it’s going that day.”

12. “When you have a song on the radio your career and your life changes maybe for the better and maybe for the not so good depending on how it’s going that day.”

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Loudon Wainwright III Quote: “I was a smoker for years. Occasionally I slip and have a cigarette. Remarkably, my voice has held up. I’m grateful, obviously. But I don’t gargle with honey and ground-up bird eggs. I have no secrets.”

13. “I was a smoker for years. Occasionally I slip and have a cigarette. Remarkably, my voice has held up. I’m grateful, obviously. But I don’t gargle with honey and ground-up bird eggs. I have no secrets.”

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Loudon Wainwright III Quote: “Who was that fatman buried in your place? Just another imitator, plastic surgeons did his face.”

14. “Who was that fatman buried in your place? Just another imitator, plastic surgeons did his face.”

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Loudon Wainwright III Quote: “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.”

15. “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.”

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Loudon Wainwright III Quote: “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.”

16. “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.”

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Loudon Wainwright III Quote: “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.”

17. “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.”

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Loudon Wainwright III Quote: “When a parent dies, the whole house of cards comes down.”

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

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Loudon Wainwright III Quote: “I wasn’t in a lot of rock and roll bands. I was in jug bands and things when I was in school.”

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

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Loudon Wainwright III Quote: “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.”

20. “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.”

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Loudon Wainwright III Quote: “I’ve been writing about growing old for some time, really from the beginning of my career. It’s something I’m apparently hung up about and now that I am old, hopefully I speak about it with some authority.”

21. “I’ve been writing about growing old for some time, really from the beginning of my career. It’s something I’m apparently hung up about and now that I am old, hopefully I speak about it with some authority.”

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Loudon Wainwright III Quote: “It’s nice when people say, ‘God, I’ve been listening to you since 1963 or 1985, or whatever.’ I appreciate anybody who goes out and buys music these days.”

22. “It’s nice when people say, ‘God, I’ve been listening to you since 1963 or 1985, or whatever.’ I appreciate anybody who goes out and buys music these days.”

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Loudon Wainwright III Quote: “If I had five minutes to live, I don’t think I’d be bothered singing a song. I’d be dead, so it won’t really matter. I’d have a glass of wine and a cigarette.”

23. “If I had five minutes to live, I don’t think I’d be bothered singing a song. I’d be dead, so it won’t really matter. I’d have a glass of wine and a cigarette.”

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Loudon Wainwright III Quote: “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.”

24. “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.”

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Loudon Wainwright III Quote: “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.”

25. “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.”

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Loudon Wainwright III Quote: “After a war, after a concentration camp, I find it’s not too difficult to be happy.”

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

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Loudon Wainwright III Quote: “I’m always asked if the songs that I write are therapeutic, and my answer is a quick no. In fact, it could be argued that they exacerbate my neurosis.”

27. “I’m always asked if the songs that I write are therapeutic, and my answer is a quick no. In fact, it could be argued that they exacerbate my neurosis.”

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Loudon Wainwright III Quote: “As it turns out, three of my four kids are professional singers. And they’re really interesting, good singers.”

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

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