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 Robert Louis Stevenson Novel - They're Not Autobiographical, And Yet There's A Reality In Every Single Page. It's Real Life Of The Imagination.

-Will Oldham

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The Songs Are Not Meant To Be

Will Oldham

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 Robert Louis Stevenson Novel - They're Not Autobiographical, And Yet There's A Reality In Every Single Page. It's Real Life Of The Imagination.

Topic

Song

Real

Moving

Then Little Writings And Recordings That Thankfully Continue To Come Up. I'm In This Kind Of Wonderful, Kind Of Awkward, Off-putting, And Strange Position Where There's Nothing I Want To Do More Than Continue To Make Music, But The Ways That I Do Things Are Not In Tune With How I Can Do Them Commercially.

Writing

Awkward

Tunes