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Singer-songwriter

Will Oldham, born on January 15, 1970, is a renowned singer-songwriter known for his unique musical style that blends folk, rock, and blues elements. His music has gained widespread acclaim and has had a significant impact on the independent music scene.

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Famous Will Oldham Quotes

“At the same time, you don't want to be blindsided at some point because you've taken too much comfort from knowing nothing. So you try to keep a little store of practical knowledge. At a certain point you have to pretend that something is true in order to have a relationship with the world.”

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“If I give a little hint or clue as to where my voice could be going, that would [be] read. Because people can listen closely, you know, you can sit with headphones or you just concentrate on music, you can just hear, sometimes, the desires of the voice itself.”

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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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“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 a ticket to anything except itself."”

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“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.”

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“There's very little admirable about being a pirate. There's very little functional about a pirate. There's very little real about a pirate.”

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Author:Will Oldham

About the Author

Born: January 15, 1970
Known for: Singer-songwriter
Quotes: 93

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Songs of Love and Horror: Collected Lyrics of Will OldhamRelated source material

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