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 guess what I've been saying over the past few minutes is that it's hard to do that, to… — 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 and singing. — 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 Image
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… — 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 Image
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 Image
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… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
