A Quote by Rufus Wainwright

When I was young, my mother [folk singer Kate McGarrigle] brought home this recording of Verdi's Requiem and we listened to it from top to bottom. By the end of it, I was a completely different person. It was literally a requiem mass for my former self. I was about 12 or 13. The Requiem just totally hooked into what I was going through emotionally - discovering my sexuality right at the time when AIDS was devastating my community and dealing with intense parental situations.

Rufus Wainwright

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Rufus Wainwright
Canadian - Musician
Born: July 22, 1973

I always had a feeling, for example, that there should be something from Verdi's "Requiem" in the film. You hear it when you see the lava flow in Iceland. That turned out to be a very easy choice.

Werner Herzog

At the end of Requiem all I wanted to do was get a DV camera and just do a small film. But then the hunger comes back.

Darren Aronofsky

A requiem is meant to bring comfort.

Mack Wilberg

Simplicity is always a virtue. One kid on a riverbank working out a Stephen Foster tune on his new harmonica heard from the correct esthetic distance projects more magic and power than the entire Vienna Philharmonic and Chorus laboring (once again) through the Mozart Requiem or Bach's B Minor Mass.

Edward Abbey

I don’t think [Requiem for a Dream] is for children, but I think if you went home and looked at the video games that your kids are playing, you’d be much more shocked.

Jared Leto

Ah! the year is slowly dying, And the wind in tree-top sighing, Chant his requiem. Thick and fast the leaves are falling, High in air wild birds are calling, Nature's solemn hymn.

Mary Weston Fordham

'Requiem' has been controversial because people don't feel I gave it closure.

Lauren Oliver

I guess Requiem for a Heavyweight as old as it is was as honest a piece as I've ever done.

Rod Serling

Most people think that a widow is inhabiting some elegiac world of - it's like Mozart's 'Requiem Mass.' You know, it's very beautiful and elevated thoughts and some measure of dignity. I didn't have that experience at all. I had one pratfall after another.

Joyce Carol Oates

Requiem has been controversial because people dont feel I gave it closure.

Lauren Oliver

Yeah, 'Requiem for a Dream' - it'll put you off a lot of things, that film, that's for sure.

Douglas Booth

'Amores Perros' is rock, '21 Grams' is jazz, 'Babel' is an opera, and 'Biutiful' is a requiem.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Noble men in the quiet of morning hear Indians singing the continent's violent requiem.

William Dunbar

In 'Requiem for a Dream,' the director Darren Aronofsky's adaptation of Hubert Selby Jr.'s lower-depths novel, Jared Leto has lost so much weight, he looks like another person altogether.