List of Will Oldham Quotes

I Don't Know The Reasons Why Something Is Intimidating To Me Or Disgusting To Me And I Don't Like Feeling That Way, Either. I Don't Like It When Something Turns Me Off, On Any Level. So, Its A Matter Of Saying: Well, I Can Either Sit Here And Reject, Or I Can Do Double-time Embracing Of Something Else Just To Reassure Myself That I'm Not Against The World.

It's Good When Someone Says, "would You Write A Song For This Purpose," Or "would You Record A Song For This Purpose," Or "would You Help Me Realize This Song," Again, For This Purpose.

My Booking Agent, Of Course, Here And Overseas, Their Tendency Is To Want To Build On A Certain Kind Of Measurable Success, And I Was Thinking Yesterday, What I'd Like To Do Is Maybe Start To Compile A List Of The Best 200 To 500 Capacity Rooms Around The World And Just Start Going To Them Again And Again And Again.

Sometimes The Ensemble 'eighth Blackbird' Will Have Performances And Invite Me To Be A Featured Soloist. I Think That Is What They Call It In That World-"featured Soloist."

A Vocal Performance “coming Together” Is Hard, But It's The Kind Of Hard That If You Work Hard Enough At It, You Can Do It And It Feels Great, Because It Was So Hard. So We'll Continue Maybe Even Over The Next Couple Of Years To Perform That And To Expand Our Collaborative Repertoire.

I Was Worried Before I Saw The Play 'the Seven Storey Mountain', Thinking I Don't Really Want To See A Play About Thomas Merton. He Probably Wouldn't Have Either, Ideally. Then It Isn't. It's More About Us And It's About Our Relationship To What He May Or May Not Have Thought About. It's Its Own Thing Completely.

I Felt So Liberated When I First Saw Charles Mee’s 'the Glory Of The World' At Bam Play, Because For Me This Is The Gateway To Contemplation, Or This Is The Gateway To Love, Or This Is The Gateway To Faith, Not Sitting And Reading A Book By An Isolated Monk, God Bless Him. This Is.

My Dream Many Years Ago Would've Been To Continue To Write And Record Songs In Record/album Form For Years To Come, But Now Records Aren't What They Were Then - And So It Doesn't Actually Feel Very Good To Make A Record Of Songs.

I Do An Opening In 'the Glory Of The World' Play At Bam, And Then I Go Up To The High Balcony In The Back And Watch The Bulk Of The Play, But Then I Have To Leave My Seat About Seven To 10 Minutes Before The End Of That Final Big Scene...and It's A Bummer.

To Me, The Best Purpose Of An Interview Would Be To Illuminate Some Things About How Somebody Works For The Benefit Of Somebody Else Who Wants To Do Those Things. And That's Not Where Most Interviews Go At All, So To Me, They Seem Like Strange Exercises In Small Talk And Wasted Air.

I've Never Done A Video Where I Feel Like The Images Have Anything To Do With My Song, Except In The Most Vague Way Possible, Because I Feel Like The Song Is Its Own Complete Thing. But Ideally, A Song Is A Complete Sphere Like The Earth, Where If You Were An Alien With A Huge, Huge Finger, You Could Stick Your Finger Into The Middle Of The Ocean And Make An Impression On It. It’s Not An Impregnable Sphere, But It Is A Sphere.

As Far As Implying That We Know What We're Doing, That We Have Perspective Enough - By Diving Fully Into Something It Requires A Lot Of Denial, And Denial Is Always Dangerous Even If All Of Your Intentions Are Good And All Your Preparations Are Good. When You Make A Choice You're Denying An Infinite Number Of Other Choices.