Will Oldham Quotes

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• I had a lot of time to myself, and I would listen to a lot of music, mostly music that I knew fairly well and…
• The songs are not meant to be real life. They're meant to have a psychic - rather than a factual - bearing on the listener.…
• The first music I bought when I was nine or 10 was pop music from the '50s and '60s, like The Everly Bros., Elvis, Del…
• It is more rewarding to be complicit with scarcity than excess.
• As it turns out, as an adult I can have a very unpleasant, fierce and unforgiving temper at times. But I don't think I had…
• Cities are made for enemies to destroy.
• I do not want a personal relationship with my fans. Or to do anything that encourages them to think they have one with me. They…
• I don't like going to cities. I don't mind maybe being in a city sometimes for a few hours, but I pretty much don't like…
• I don't like the idea of being surrounded by hidden things; people you can't see in buildings and cars.
• I don't think that word - the word pirate - has any real meaning. Or it's something that's had meaning imposed on it.
• I figure it's okay to make certain rules, whether or not people despise you for it at the time.
• I have more respect for somebody who points at his ideal - in this case, the ideal of the pirate - and then becomes something…
• 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.
• I need to go someplace faraway that doesn't have telephones and doesn't have a record player and doesn't have movie theaters and people walking down…
• I think everybody works from a defensive position, for the most part, in the film industry.
• 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…
• I think that America in general is piratical. Every time we accept a paycheck for doing almost nothing, allowing us to live above the poverty…
• 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…
• I write a song to be recorded. And to some extent to be performed, but definitely more to be recorded than performed, because the recording…
• I'd like my records to reach as many people as possible, but I'm also thinking in terms of how I can keep from getting jaded…

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