Rufus Wainwright Quote Explained: Once you've fallen from classical virtue, won't have a soul for to wake up and hold you.

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

Singer-songwriter

· Canada

Philosophy

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As an artist, you put so much into what you do and it can all be torn down in a nanosecond.

Singer-songwriter

· Canada

Artist
Torn

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That will to love is very powerful. But it doesn’t always win.

- Rufus Wainwright

Singer-songwriter

· Canada

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Guess the world needs both sun And the moon too Sad with what I have except for you.

- Rufus Wainwright

Singer-songwriter

· Canada

Moon

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I personally don’t have the ability to lie about my life, for better or for worse.

- Rufus Wainwright

Singer-songwriter

· Canada

Lying

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It seems like the older I get, the more unreal the world becomes.

- Rufus Wainwright

Singer-songwriter

· Canada

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But I want to deepen as an artist, and working with Shakespeare definitely points in that direction.

- Rufus Wainwright

Singer-songwriter

· Canada

Artist

Once you’ve fallen from classical virtue, won’t have a soul for to wake up and hold you.

Once you’ve fallen from classical virtue, won’t have a soul for to wake up and hold you.

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

As an artist, you put so much into what you do and it can all be torn down in a nanosecond.

That will to love is very powerful. But it doesn’t always win.

Guess the world needs both sun And the moon too Sad with what I have except for you.

I personally don’t have the ability to lie about my life, for better or for worse.

It seems like the older I get, the more unreal the world becomes.

But I want to deepen as an artist, and working with Shakespeare definitely points in that direction.

Equilibrium is the profoundest tendency of all human activity. Explain

Everything must justify its existence before the judgment seat of Reason, or give up existence.

Live dangerously. Build your cities on the slopes of Vesuvius. Explain

It is not reason that gives us our moral orientation, it is sensitivity.

The body is to be compared, not to a physical object, but rather to a work of art.

Fine art is in the last consequence, philosophy expressed visually.

We never love with all our heart and all our soul but once, and that is the first time. Explain

Mys philosophy toward art is true to my time, true to my dream, and true to myself.

Once you’ve fallen from classical virtue, won’t have a soul for to wake up and hold you.

Once you’ve fallen from classical virtue, won’t have a soul for to wake up and hold you.

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