--- title: "10 Feels Quotes By Will Oldham" description: "10 Feels quotes by Will Oldham. Plus more from Will Oldham and more Feels sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a55/will-oldham-7702_afraid-of-death_on-days-where-i-feel-the-karma-is-in-bal_1080838.png" --- > [On days where I feel the karma is in balance I'm not afraid of death. And when I feel it's weighing heavily…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/will-oldham/on-days-where-i-feel-the-karma-is-in-balance-i-m-not-afraid-of-death/) [Will Oldham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/will-oldham/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a55/will-oldham-7702_afraid-of-death_on-days-where-i-feel-the-karma-is-in-bal_1080838.png) > [I feel much more physically connected to my voice, and I like the physicality of the voice, and how the voice can…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/will-oldham/i-feel-much-more-physically-connected-to-my-voice-and-i-like-the/) [Will Oldham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/will-oldham/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d13/will-oldham-7702_connected_i-feel-much-more-physically-connected-to_819829.png) > [My dream many years ago would've been to continue to write and record songs in record/album form for years to come, but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/will-oldham/my-dream-many-years-ago-would-ve-been-to-continue-to-write-and-record/) [Will Oldham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/will-oldham/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/472/will-oldham-7702_albums_my-dream-many-years-ago-would-ve-been-to_1997365.png) > [All you do is you go back to the Maida Vale Studios at BBC in London, and it feels like you're in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/will-oldham/all-you-do-is-you-go-back-to-the-maida-vale-studios-at-bbc-in-london/) [Will Oldham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/will-oldham/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c50/will-oldham-7702_clouds_all-you-do-is-you-go-back-to-the-maida-v_1867817.png) > [Making money is awesome and fun as hell, but they're saying, "Well, you're offered a whole lot of money to do this,"…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/will-oldham/making-money-is-awesome-and-fun-as-hell-but-they-re-saying-well-you/) [Will Oldham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/will-oldham/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/472/will-oldham-7702_bigs_making-money-is-awesome-and-fun-as-hell_2466132.png) > [I feel like, for me, reading Thomas Merton is like “Wait a minute, this is a rabbit hole. This isn’t a gateway…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/will-oldham/i-feel-like-for-me-reading-thomas-merton-is-like-wait-a-minute-this/) [Will Oldham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/will-oldham/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/870/will-oldham-7702_feels_i-feel-like-for-me-reading-thomas-merton_2067865.jpg) > [The songs are not meant to be real life. They're meant to have a psychic - rather than a factual - bearing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/will-oldham/the-songs-are-not-meant-to-be-real-life-they-re-meant-to-have-a/) [Will Oldham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/will-oldham/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d36/will-oldham-7702_being-real_the-songs-are-not-meant-to-be-real-life_103820.png) > [I want to be successful and I want people to hear the music and I want to make money at it, but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/will-oldham/i-want-to-be-successful-and-i-want-people-to-hear-the-music-and-i/) [Will Oldham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/will-oldham/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cf7/will-oldham-7702_able_i-want-to-be-successful-and-i-want-peopl_2088853.png) > [Venues are all the same, all feel the same, these generic blank spaces. I like artists like Lightning Bolt-bands that go in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/will-oldham/venues-are-all-the-same-all-feel-the-same-these-generic-blank-spaces/) [Will Oldham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/will-oldham/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/884/will-oldham-7702_artist_venues-are-all-the-same-all-feel-the-sam_440505.png) > [A vocal performance “Coming Together” is hard, but it's the kind of hard that if you work hard enough at it, you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/will-oldham/a-vocal-performance-coming-together-is-hard-but-it-s-the-kind-of-hard/) [Will Oldham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/will-oldham/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a72/will-oldham-7702_can-do_a-vocal-performance-coming-together-is-h_1318999.png) ## Other authors on Feels ## More by Will Oldham > [As far as implying that we know what we're doing, that we have perspective enough - by diving fully into something it requires a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/will-oldham/as-far-as-implying-that-we-know-what-we-re-doing-that-we-have/) [Will Oldham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/will-oldham/) > [It's O.K. to accept good fortune.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/will-oldham/it-s-o-k-to-accept-good-fortune/) [Will Oldham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/will-oldham/) > [I like rural areas.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/will-oldham/i-like-rural-areas/) [Will Oldham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/will-oldham/) > [The songs are not meant to be real life. They're meant to have a psychic - rather than a factual - bearing on the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/will-oldham/the-songs-are-not-meant-to-be-real-life-they-re-meant-to-have-a/) [Will Oldham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/will-oldham/) > [I do an opening in 'The Glory of the World' play at BAM, and then I go up to the high balcony in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/will-oldham/i-do-an-opening-in-the-glory-of-the-world-play-at-bam-and-then-i-go/) [Will Oldham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/will-oldham/) > [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,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/will-oldham/one-thing-that-the-internet-has-created-is-the-sense-that-information/) [Will Oldham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/will-oldham/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/will-oldham/as-a-kid-you-learn-that-there-are-thinkers-and-there-are-philosophers/) [Will Oldham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/will-oldham/) > [I valued the experience of making the recordings, and I value the performances contained therein, and I value so much of what they can…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/will-oldham/i-valued-the-experience-of-making-the-recordings-and-i-value-the/) [Will Oldham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/will-oldham/) > [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?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/will-oldham/sometimes-it-will-be-for-more-money-than-i-ve-ever-been-offered/) [Will Oldham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/will-oldham/) > [I think most great actors have their own life trajectory, the character motion doesn't have anything to do with their life motion.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/will-oldham/i-think-most-great-actors-have-their-own-life-trajectory-the/) [Will Oldham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/will-oldham/) > [To me, recordings are little fourth-dimension artifacts, because they already are representatives of past, present, and future, just inherently in their existence.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/will-oldham/to-me-recordings-are-little-fourth-dimension-artifacts-because-they/) [Will Oldham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/will-oldham/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/will-oldham/venues-are-all-the-same-all-feel-the-same-these-generic-blank-spaces/) [Will Oldham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/will-oldham/) > [Too much emphasis is put on American roots music when people try and place me. You know, I grew up listening to punk.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/will-oldham/too-much-emphasis-is-put-on-american-roots-music-when-people-try-and/) [Will Oldham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/will-oldham/) > [My booking agent, of course, here and overseas, their tendency is to want to build on a certain kind of measurable success, and I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/will-oldham/my-booking-agent-of-course-here-and-overseas-their-tendency-is-to/) [Will Oldham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/will-oldham/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/will-oldham/i-think-that-what-trips-up-a-lot-of-great-musicians-is-that-they/) [Will Oldham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/will-oldham/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/feels/will-oldham/#itemlist", "name": "10 Feels Quotes By Will Oldham", "numberOfItems": 10, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "On days where I feel the karma is in balance I'm not afraid of death. 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