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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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… — Will Oldham Copy Share Image
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… — Will Oldham Copy Share Image
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
