Will Oldham Quotes About Listening

Quotes about: Listening

• What is normally called religion is what I would tend to call music - participating in music, listening to music, making records and singing.

  Will Oldham

  Listening, Singing, Records

  Will Oldham (2012). “Will Oldham on Bonnie "Prince" Billy”, p.49, W. W. Norton & Company

• 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.

  Will Oldham

  Past, Thinking, Light

  "Will Oldham’s Fourth Dimension". Interview With T. Cole Rachel, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 10, 2016.

• 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.

  Will Oldham

  Strong, Past, Listening

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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.

  Will Oldham

  Wise, Clouds, Self

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• For me, promotional thing about some new album coming out destroys a lot of the excitement of making records. Records, movies, books - they're not supposed to be like math books. The purpose of them is to kind of take us out of ourselves and give us some sort of alternate experience or respite. To try to maximize the relationship of listening to a record through promotion is like experiencing driving a car by reading about stimulus programs. It kind of defeats the purpose.

  Will Oldham

  Book, Reading, Math

  Source: www.avclub.com

• Too much emphasis is put on American roots music when people try and place me. You know, I grew up listening to punk.

  Will Oldham

  Roots, People, Listening

  "Still voice, distant life" by Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. November 16, 2002.

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