#thing

I think that what trips up a lot of great musicians is that they become involved with too many things that aren't where their strengths lie. ↗

— Will Oldham

#great #i #i think #involved #lie

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

— Will Oldham

#certain things #going #just #need #order

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. ↗

— Will Oldham

#cd #chance #could #expensive #good

Writing songs is a profession; so it's not an attempt to take things from my interactions with other people and for some reason give them to a total stranger to listen to. I find it offensive to hear other people do that. ↗

— Will Oldham

#find #give #hear #i #interactions

I was quiet, a loner. I was one of those children where, if you put me in a room and gave me some crayons and a pencils, you wouldn't hear from me for nine straight hours. And I was always drawing racing cars and rockets and spaceships and planes, things that were very fast that would take me away. ↗

— Gary Oldman

#away #cars #children #crayons #drawing

Getting sober was one of the three pivotal events in my life, along with becoming an actor and having a child. Of the three, finding my sobriety was the hardest thing. ↗

— Gary Oldman

#along #becoming #child #events #finding

I'm not the best audience for that because I'm not a great science-fiction fan. I just never got off on space ships and space costumes, things like that. ↗

— Gary Oldman

#because #best #costumes #fan #got

There is no single way to train, or do anything well. You have to keep thinking, keep doing things. ↗

— Alexander Dale Oen

#doing #keep #single #things #thinking

I'm a musician. It's what I do! I wouldn't be too good at anything else. ↗

— Chad Smith

#else #good #i #i do #musician

Breaking records is not something you expect to be doing. That's like a sports thing, it's not usually a comedy and writing thing. ↗

— Louis C. K.

#comedy #doing #expect #like #records