Will Oldham Quotes

My voice is my instrument. ... It is not in the throat, from where it appears to come. It is in my feet and how they touch the floor, in my legs and how they lift and sink with the rhythm of the song. It is in my hips and belly and lower back.

And singing is a physical thing - your vocal cords are these muscles.

I think the greatest sound in the world is the human voice.

The voice is a human sound which nothing inanimate can perfectly imitate. It has an authority and an insinuating property which writing lacks. It is not merely so much air, but air modulated and impregnated with life.

I liked his voice, rich and unself-conscious even when he forgot words and hummed to fill in the gap. What I didn't understand, I imagined, and thus it became a love song.

Letters are something from you. It's a different kind of intention than writing an e-mail.

The vocals are what immediately draw people in and sell the song.

Spend time reflecting on your emotional and physical existence and how that applies to the voice. You have to apply that wisdom and experience when you sing - it's what comes through.

For singers, our singing voice is our natural voice, not the speaking.

I've been singing since I was a kid, but I take my voice a lot more personally than my acting. I feel a lot more personal criticism when somebody tells you that you don't have a good voice.

When I saw how people would react and be touched by my voice, this was the moment I thought maybe there's something more to this than just singing around the house.

On stage, it's very naked. There's a reason you shake your knees. You're very vulnerable, cos it's just you, your body is the instrument. But I always had confidence in my voice, if I had the right song, the right words to sing.

Writing from a personal experience can bring about this emotion and power of emotion that can be instantly connected to the instrument, my voice.

Your voice determines people's perception probably more than your style or your jokes.

I feel like the kindest thing that I do to my voice is sing.

We [with Rick Rubin] would focus on the ones that we did like, that felt right and sounded right. And if I didn't like the performance on that song, I would keep trying it and do take after take until it felt comfortable with me and felt that it was coming out of me and my guitar and my voice as one, that it was right for my soul.

I can feel your body pressed against my body. When you start to poundin', love to feel you throbbin'.

When I find a cover song that I like, I'll work away at it until I kind of believe that I wrote it.

At the top of your lungs, shout and listen to the echoes. You must live life at the top of your voice!

It's important to me that people feel connected to the band through the music, you know? I don't want it to be wallpaper. I don't want it to be background music. I want it to be clear: This is the song. These are the words. If you feel the same way as I do, sing it as loud as you can.

The oldest, truest, most beautiful organ of music, the origin to which alone our music owes its being, is the human voice.

I always feel like when I've listened to a great song I know it, 'cuz it's the only time I'll ever get goosebumps or something like that.

We learn a language through its song, and even if you don't have music you have the song of people you love's voice, and you'll notice that song in their voice.

A good song can make you smile, or it can make you dance or laugh or remind you of a moment.