Will Oldham Quotes
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I still make music. I still write music and I record music, I just don't trust music promotion [and] distribution right now enough to record a new set of diligently worked-upon compositions. I do trust the audience and the audiences very much.
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I think that what trips up a lot of great musicians is that they become involved with too many things that aren't where their strengths lie.
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The songs are not meant to be real life. They're meant to have a psychic - rather than a factual - bearing on the listener. It's rare that a song grounded in reality moves me because I don't feel like I'm getting the whole story. Songs are made to exist in and of themselves, like a great James Jones or Robert Louis Stevenson novel - they're not autobiographical, and yet there's a reality in every single page. It's real life of the imagination.
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When you're listening to a recording, you're supposedly listening to some aspect of the past in the present as you travel slowly into the future, but you also know there's a very strong likelihood that the future of that recording, whether you made it or whether you're listening to a Led Zeppelin record, is going to continue probably far beyond where you are.
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Sometimes we need to tell ourselves that we're not going to do certain things, just in order to stay sane.
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It's nice to be able to backtrack and not be embarrassed by the music you used to listen to.
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I make the songs and part of making them is singing them. But what you hear is not me. It's the song. It's through me.
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One thing that the Internet has created is the sense that information is at your fingertips, when it's really only a very, very limited, specific, and slanted kind of information.
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I don't think that word - the word pirate - has any real meaning. Or it's something that's had meaning imposed on it.
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I don't like the idea of being surrounded by hidden things; people you can't see in buildings and cars.
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I think records and music are more appropriate and more respectful of the human soul than the churches are. And more respectful of the needs of humans to communicate with the aspects of themselves that are neglected by language.