Conor Oberst Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Conor Oberst
Conor Oberst Famous Quotes & Sayings
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So much of listening to lyrically driven music is projecting your own feelings and experiences into the music.
The drunk kids, the catholics They're all about the same They're waiting for something Hoping to be saved
I started to sink like the moon tends to do if you stare at it too long Then you blink and it's gone
I didn't used to think about politics much, or social issues. I was a teenager, writing about girls.
I think in a lot of ways unconditional love is a myth. My mom's the only reason I know it's a real thing.
It's exploding bags, aerosol cans Southbound buses, Peter Pan They left it up to us again I thought you knew the drill It's kill or be killed.
I like to feel the burn of the audience's eyes when I'm whispering all my darkest secrets into the microphone.
Pronouns really don't matter in a song - 'I' or 'he' or 'she' or even subscribing a lyric to an inanimate object.
I think it is more like a ghost that has been following us both. Something vague that we're not seeing, something more like a feeling.
If you think about the concept of reincarnation, it's essentially uploading yourself and your spirit into a new form, a new hard drive as it were.
I kind of go in waves with reading. Sometimes I read all the time, and sometimes I can't get settled enough to focus.
I have a car in Nebraska. When I bought it, they gave me a satellite radio, and there's an 'indie-rock' station. It's just nothing I'm interested in.
The Bible's blind, the Torah's deaf, the Qur'an is mute; if you burned them all together you'd get close to the truth.
My Brother went to college To become a doctor And if he studies hard enough He'll end up just like papa, who hates his life.
I think our music is more about seeing ourselves in each other and trying to find a more humanistic viewpoint for the world.
I think there's a danger, for me at least, in retreating and going inward and depression. I have to stay diligent against that tendency.
I think there's so much about Rasta culture that's interesting. Just the idea of preaching one-ness, that we're all in this together.
Because the truth is that gossip is as good as gospel in this town. You can save face but you won't ever save your soul. And that's a fact.
I went right from wunderkind to washed up. Old. Been around too long. That's just the way I feel. That's my internal dialogue.
When you write a song, the goal is not to convey the details of your life. You should write a memoir or something if that's what you're going to do.
I'm proud that with 'Bright Eyes' we've always experimented and tried to make a different record every time out.
We [ the Desaparecidos ] are perfectly prepared for people to hate what we're saying or not like what we're saying.
And in the morning when the sun rise. Look in the water, see the blue sky. As if heaven has been laid there at our feet.
We [ Desaparecidos] try to be the opposite of apathetic. There are so many young people in America that are apathetic.
Art is essentially communication. It doesn't exist in a vacuum. That's why people make art, so other people can relate to it.
I find that moving keeps me optimistic, the idea of what's going to be down the road a bit or around the next bend.
When I started writing songs, I was doing it for myself and a small circle of friends. And gradually, over the years, an audience became involved.
And me I'm in the bathroom crying out my eyelids because it's hard to be a man when you're scared, just like a little kid.
I'd rather be working for a paycheck, than waiting to win the lottery. Besides, maybe this time it's different, I mean, I really think you like me.
I've cried, and you'd think I'd be better for it, but the sadness just sleeps, and it stays in my spine the rest of my life.
I'm very interested in writing - it just takes so much discipline, whether it's short stories or novels.
I swear that I'm dying slowly but it's happening, and if the perfect spring is waiting somewhere ... just take me there.
My main thing is just to keep writing. I've been doing some songwriting that's for my own record, I suppose.
It seems like everything I do musically I tend to lose a few fans and gain a few fans, and it all kind of evens out.
If the world could remain within a frame like a painting on the wall, I think we'd see the beauty then and stand staring in awe.
Rock and roll seems to have had a mellowing in the business where it got harder to sell individual records and make money doing that.
Movement has been one of the few constants in my life, and I always feel a great sense of optimism when I set off to a new place.
Hip-hop music has done a very good job of maintaining the political context, where they stand and not giving a sh-t what people think.
I would prefer to be a little nervous, because when you stop being nervous is kind of when you stop caring.
A boycott is, inherently, a blunt instrument. It is an imperfect weapon, a carpet bomb, when all involved would prefer a surgical strike.
My family is Catholic. I went to a Catholic school, that kind of thing, so that was my childhood for sure.
One of my favorite modern American authors is Denis Johnson. I'm deeply inspired by all of his work - I rip him off constantly.
I'm not the most technically savvy person in the world. Like, I'm not good at troubleshooting when stuff happens to my digital music.
Each song [Desaparecidos] has a seed that it came from. We're trying to take that and broaden it out and make it resonate with people.
You should never be embarrassed by your trouble with living, because it's the ones with the sorest throats who have done the most singing.