Quotes by Will Oldham

Will Oldham

A record is something that isn’t real or true. It’s like cinema. It’s a construction of something hyper-real and surreal and unreal all at the same time. You make a space that doesn’t really exist. One of the big joys of being in this line of work is building the recorded versions of the songs.

Real

Song

Space

A vocal performance “Coming Together” is hard, but it’s the kind of hard that if you work hard enough at it, you can do it and it feels great, because it was so hard. So we’ll continue maybe even over the next couple of years to perform that and to expand our collaborative repertoire.

Couple

Hard Work

Years

All you do is you go back to the Maida Vale Studios at BBC in London, and it feels like you’re in a spaceship. It feels like you’re in 2001 or something like that. It’s massive and well constructed and highly technologically advanced and occupied by these wise scientists, engineers, and producers. Listening to it, it just doesn’t sound like me – that’s a younger self that didn’t know who he was or what he was doing. I can’t identify with a nebulous cloud.

Clouds

Self

Wise

As a kid you learn that there are thinkers and there are philosophers and there are theologian, and I’d hear little bits of the ideas that these people pursued or developed or created and I’d be really excited. Then I’ll start to read it and I think, “Wait a minute, this is a rabbit hole. This isn’t a gateway or a ticket to anything except itself.”

Ideas

Kids

Thinking

At the same time, you don’t want to be blindsided at some point because you’ve taken too much comfort from knowing nothing. So you try to keep a little store of practical knowledge. At a certain point you have to pretend that something is true in order to have a relationship with the world.

Knowing Nothing

Order

Taken

Every recording session and tour is a very valuable time to me in terms of getting to spend time with the musicians – whether they’re friends and family or people I’ve just met – because I don’t have a job where I get to interact with people everyday.

Everyday

Jobs

People

For a long time I’ve walked through this world with the desire, like in Rear Window, to look into other people’s lives because I know that there is a way in which I am the same as so many of the strangers that I see.

Desire

Long

People

For me, promotional thing about some new album coming out destroys a lot of the excitement of making records. Records, movies, books – they’re not supposed to be like math books. The purpose of them is to kind of take us out of ourselves and give us some sort of alternate experience or respite. To try to maximize the relationship of listening to a record through promotion is like experiencing driving a car by reading about stimulus programs. It kind of defeats the purpose.

Book

Math

Reading

Frank Sinatra’s never been handsome, but he’s one of my favorite singers. Who needs looks when you have a voice and power?

Looks

Needs

Voice

I am thrilled at most corners that I turn walking down the street, I’m thrilled by most pages I turn when I’m reading a book thinking of what it’s going to show and what it’s going to make possible for tomorrow.

Book

Reading

Thinking

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Able

Acting

Actors

Agents

America

Artist

Book

Cds

Chance

Character

Church

Clouds

Couple

Decision

Desire

Despise

Dimensions

Everyday

Excess

Eye

Fame

Feelings

Figures

Film

Focus

Gender

Hard Work

Ideas

Idiot

Internet

Interviews

Jobs

Kids

Kind

Knowing Nothing

Light

Lines

Listening

Littles

Long

Looks

Luck

Math

May

Mean

Messages

Needs

Nice

Numbers

Order

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Quotes by Will Oldham

Will Oldham

A vocal performance “Coming Together” is hard, but it’s the kind of hard that if you work hard enough at it, you can do it and it feels great, because it was so hard. So we’ll continue maybe even over the next couple of years to perform that and to expand our collaborative repertoire.

At the same time, you don’t want to be blindsided at some point because you’ve taken too much comfort from knowing nothing. So you try to keep a little store of practical knowledge. At a certain point you have to pretend that something is true in order to have a relationship with the world.

Every recording session and tour is a very valuable time to me in terms of getting to spend time with the musicians – whether they’re friends and family or people I’ve just met – because I don’t have a job where I get to interact with people everyday.

For a long time I’ve walked through this world with the desire, like in Rear Window, to look into other people’s lives because I know that there is a way in which I am the same as so many of the strangers that I see.

Frank Sinatra’s never been handsome, but he’s one of my favorite singers. Who needs looks when you have a voice and power?

I am thrilled at most corners that I turn walking down the street, I’m thrilled by most pages I turn when I’m reading a book thinking of what it’s going to show and what it’s going to make possible for tomorrow.

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