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“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 lie.” quote by Will Oldham — Download Open image

“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 lie.”

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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…

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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…

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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?

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I think most great actors have their own life trajectory, the character motion doesn't have anything to do with their life motion.

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To me, recordings are little fourth-dimension artifacts, because they already are representatives of past, present, and future, just inherently in their existence.

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