I make the songs and part of making them is singing them. But what you hear is not me. It's the song.… — Will Oldham Copy Share Image
What is normally called religion is what I would tend to call music - participating in music, listening to music, making records… — Will Oldham Copy Share Image
Too much emphasis is put on American roots music when people try and place me. You know, I grew up listening to… — Will Oldham Copy Share Image
It's nice to be able to backtrack and not be embarrassed by the music you used to listen to. — Will Oldham Copy Share Image
I think that what trips up a lot of great musicians is that they become involved with too many things that aren't… — Will Oldham Copy Share Image
I think records and music are more appropriate and more respectful of the human soul than the churches are. And more respectful… — Will Oldham Copy Share Image
The sense of waking up in the morning and knowing that there is music ahead of me in the day is such… — Will Oldham Copy Share Image
The first music I bought when I was nine or 10 was pop music from the '50s and '60s, like The Everly… — Will Oldham Copy Share Image
You're hoping that it's going to be an extraordinary experience any time you create and/or listen to music with other people. I… — Will Oldham Copy Share Image
If I give a little hint or clue as to where my voice could be going, that would [be] read. Because people… — Will Oldham Copy Share Image
Then little writings and recordings that thankfully continue to come up. I'm in this kind of wonderful, kind of awkward, off-putting, and… — Will Oldham Copy Share Image
Every recording session and tour is a very valuable time to me in terms of getting to spend time with the musicians… — Will Oldham Copy Share Image
The ideal is to put on shows where, if you go into the same space again, you don't remember ever having been… — Will Oldham Copy Share Image
I want to be successful and I want people to hear the music and I want to make money at it, but… — Will Oldham Copy Share Image
I had a lot of time to myself, and I would listen to a lot of music, mostly music that I knew… — Will Oldham Copy Share Image
I still make music. I still write music and I record music, I just don't trust music promotion [and] distribution right now… — Will Oldham Copy Share Image
There are a limited number of promoters out there who care about creating music. You rarely meet a promoter who's like, "I… — Will Oldham Copy Share Image
As far as implying that we know what we're doing, that we have perspective enough - by diving fully into something it requires a… — Will Oldham Copy Share
The songs are not meant to be real life. They're meant to have a psychic - rather than a factual - bearing on the… — Will Oldham Copy Share
I do an opening in 'The Glory of the World' play at BAM, and then I go up to the high balcony in the… — Will Oldham Copy Share
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,… — Will Oldham Copy Share
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… — Will Oldham Copy Share
I valued the experience of making the recordings, and I value the performances contained therein, and I value so much of what they can… — Will Oldham Copy Share
Sometimes it will be for more money than I've ever been offered before. I mean, am I an idiot again for not doing that? — Will Oldham Copy Share
I think most great actors have their own life trajectory, the character motion doesn't have anything to do with their life motion. — Will Oldham Copy Share
To me, recordings are little fourth-dimension artifacts, because they already are representatives of past, present, and future, just inherently in their existence. — Will Oldham Copy Share
Venues are all the same, all feel the same, these generic blank spaces. I like artists like Lightning Bolt-bands that go in and kind… — Will Oldham Copy Share
Too much emphasis is put on American roots music when people try and place me. You know, I grew up listening to punk. — Will Oldham Copy Share
My booking agent, of course, here and overseas, their tendency is to want to build on a certain kind of measurable success, and I… — Will Oldham Copy Share
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… — Will Oldham Copy Share
![“If I give a little hint or clue as to where my voice could be going, that would [be] read. Because people can listen closely, you know, you can sit with headphones or you just concentrate on music, you can just hear, sometimes, the desires of the voice itself.” quote by Will Oldham](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/f7e/will-oldham-7702_clue_if-i-give-a-little-hint-or-clue-as-to-wh_1772009.png)
![“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.” quote by Will Oldham](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/def/will-oldham-7702_audience_i-still-make-music-i-still-write-music-a_878384.png)
