65 Quotes by Loudon Wainwright III

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.