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“I still make music. I still write music and I record music, I just don't trust music promotion [and] distribution right now enough to record a new set of diligently worked-upon compositions. I do trust the audience and the audiences very much.”

Quote by Will Oldham

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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. more

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“I valued the experience of making the recordings, and I value the performances contained therein, and I value so much of what they can represent. I also think they're a terrific listening experience. Putting them out this way was a way of trying to maintain and nurture the relationship with the audience and also shine a light on the recent past, because we are so apt to be forgetful as human beings that there was such a thing as a recent past. These are some of the reasons for making this record.”

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Author:Will Oldham

“I have a mantra that kind of explains my feelings on this subject, which is, "The past is the present is the future." When you're recording something, you're making something that will exist in the future.”

Kind Feelings Past Subjects Mantras

Author:Will Oldham

“When you're listening to a recording, you're supposedly listening to some aspect of the past in the present as you travel slowly into the future, but you also know there's a very strong likelihood that the future of that recording, whether you made it or whether you're listening to a Led Zeppelin record, is going to continue probably far beyond where you are.”

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Author:Will Oldham

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

Littles Past Existence Dimensions Fourth Representatives Past Present Past Present And Future Artifacts

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“When I listen to little fourth-dimension artifacts, they're like they were made as time capsules in the first place. You know that when you're writing the song and recording the song, you're already sending a message to the future listener, whoever and wherever and whenever that will be.”

Knows Writing Firsts Made Song Messages Listeners Time Capsules Sending A Message

Author:Will Oldham

“You're making something that won't be what it is until some unknown date in the future. All aspects of the personal disappear.”

Aspect Disappear

Author:Will Oldham

“If we were making a record in Kentucky, there might be some more elements that recall a time, a place, or a relationship. Recording for the BBC you enter into this strange and wonderful, but kind of sterile, place with which you have no personal history, and that's the Maida Vale Studios at BBC in London.”

Ifs Kind Might Records Wonderful Strange Elements Studios London Recalls Kentucky Personal History

Author:Will Oldham

“All you do is you go back to the Maida Vale Studios at BBC in London, and it feels like you're in a spaceship. It feels like you're in 2001 or something like that. It's massive and well constructed and highly technologically advanced and occupied by these wise scientists, engineers, and producers. Listening to it, it just doesn't sound like me - that's a younger self that didn't know who he was or what he was doing. I can't identify with a nebulous cloud.”

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Author:Will Oldham

“I was really looking forward to doing the thing that I do - I basically appear just at the beginning and at the end of the 'The Glory of the World' play - but when I got to opening night, I started to get really sad that that was the last time I was going to see the play as a spectator without actually being in it.”

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Author:Will Oldham

“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.”

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Author:Will Oldham