American - Musician | December 24, 1970 -
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 cities. I don't even like passing through them.
Will Oldham
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I think everybody works from a defensive position, for the most part, in the film industry.
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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 will last longer than a performance.
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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 can have a personal relationship with my songs. That's fine, but they don't know me.
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Too much emphasis is put on American roots music when people try and place me. You know, I grew up listening to punk.
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People are looking for fame or a focus, and I can't provide that.
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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.
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Writing songs is a profession; so it's not an attempt to take things from my interactions with other people and for some reason give them to a total stranger to listen to. I find it offensive to hear other people do that.
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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 that when I was a kid.
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What is normally called religion is what I would tend to call music - participating in music, listening to music, making records and singing.
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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 of humans to communicate with the aspects of themselves that are neglected by language.
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I don't like the idea of being surrounded by hidden things; people you can't see in buildings and cars.
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