Will Oldham Quotes & Sayings

“I need to go someplace faraway that doesn't have telephones and doesn't have a record player and doesn't have movie theaters and people walking down the street in order to not do anything.”

“I have more respect for somebody who points at his ideal - in this case, the ideal of the pirate - and then becomes something that's more radical, more exciting, more subversive than a pirate could ever be.”

“Sometimes we need to tell ourselves that we're not going to do certain things, just in order to stay sane.”

“Whenever I see something that looks like it could be good - whether it's on vinyl, CD or cassette - if it's not too expensive, I'll take a chance.”

“I think that America in general is piratical. Every time we accept a paycheck for doing almost nothing, allowing us to live above the poverty line, we're engaging in piracy.”

“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.”

“It is more rewarding to be complicit with scarcity than excess.”

“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.”

“It's O.K. to accept good fortune.”

“I don't think that word - the word pirate - has any real meaning. Or it's something that's had meaning imposed on it.”