Conor Oberst Quotes

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• Now I believe that lovers should be draped in flowers and laid entwined together on a bed of clover and left there to sleep, left there to dream of their happiness.

  Conor Oberst

  Dream, Believe, Flower

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• 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.

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  Wall, Fear, Thinking

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• 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.

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  Singing, Done, Trouble

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• I'm happy just because I found out I am really no one

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  Found

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• You can't manufacture inspiration, so a lot of it is still a waiting game for me. There's still a lot of mystery to songwriting. I don't have a method that I can go back to - they either come or they don't.

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  Inspiration, Games, Waiting

  "Bright eyes slim down with single LP, fatten up with loads of Collabos" by Chris Harris, www.mtv.com. February 1, 2007.

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• I like to feel the burn of the audience's eyes when I'm whispering all my darkest secrets into the microphone.

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  Eye, Secret, Whispering

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• Everything must belong somewhere. I know that now, that's why I'm staying here.

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  Staying, Knows

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• I try not to think about the idea of reaching more and more people, because once you get in that mindset, I think you lose the point of why you're doing it in the first place. Still, the best feeling I ever get is when I finish a song, and it exists, and it didn't exist before, and now it's there, and it makes me feel a certain way.

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  Song, Thinking, Ideas

  "Conor Oberst of Bright Eyes". Interview with Gregg LaGambina, www.avclub.com. December 11, 2007.

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• I want to be enriched by the music I listen to. That's the reason it never really exists in the mainstream. Because that's not what most people are after.

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  People, Want, Reason

  "Conor Oberst of Bright Eyes". Interview with Gregg LaGambina, www.avclub.com. December 11, 2007.

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• Love's an excuse to get hurt.

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  Hurt, Hurt Feelings, Excuse

  "Song: Lover I Don't Have to Love ("Lifted or The Story is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground")". 2002.

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• I don't see any harm in letting whatever comes out come out of you, even if it's sort of weird, or dark, or painful, or too embarrassing, or whatever. I feel like you might as well get it down for yourself. It can't do anything but help you get to where you want to be by recognizing the thoughts that you're having.

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  Dark, Want, Might

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• So when your new eyes meet mine they won't see no lies, just love.

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  Lying, Eye, Deceit

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• The one recurring theme in my writing, and in my life in general, is confusion. The fact that anytime you think you really know something, you're going to find out you're wrong - that is the rule. The moments where you think you have something figured out, those are the exceptions.

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  Writing, Thinking, Confusion

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• Gabriel Garcia Marquez is one of my all-time favorite writers. I feel spiritual when reading his words, even though they're translated. I wish desperately that I could read it in its original language. I already feel like I'm going to church when I read him; imagine if I could read it in the original.

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  Spiritual, Reading, Wish

  "He's wide awake, he's talking". Interview with Sasha Frere-Jones, www.newyorker.com. February 7, 2005.

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• The first music I ever got into was the '80s alternative bands that my brother listened to, like The Cure and The Smiths and R.E.M. and Fugazi. I can remember specifically saying The Cure was my favorite band back in second grade.

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  Brother, Alternatives, Band

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. September 17, 2003.

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• I would say I'm a humanist. I like that. I mean, I don't claim to know anything, but I'm curious about it all. I'm always fascinated when people really fervently believe, because I have such a hard time believing anything.

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  Believe, Mean, Hard Times

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The worst thing you can do as an artist is to repeat yourself.

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  Artist, Worst, Repeats

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• All those experiences were a chance to learn more about music. Playing with the Valley band is like such a "live" band. I mean, really, in many ways Bright Eyes is really a studio project. We form bands to tour, but it really is - you know, we take the songs and we figure out how to decorate them and it's all in the studio, we build the songs that way. Whereas Mystic Valley Band was the exact opposite, where everybody knows what they are gonna be playing on the song and there's sort of a general stylistic approach, and then it's just plug in and play.

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  Song, Mean, Eye

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Once you realize that everyone is in the same boat, that everyone is just as insecure and childlike as everyone else, that all these jokers in D.C. ruining our world are just greedy kids grabbing for marbles - I think that realization means you're an adult.

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  Mean, Kids, Insecure

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• With science and reason throughout history, what people believed turned out to be false. So I like to keep an open mind to all perspectives and learn and become more fully realised as a person. I just feel we're never going to know what the full picture is.

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  People, Perspective, Mind

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• I've never conceptualized much of what I write about. Maybe, once I'm onto something, I'll conceptualize a finished record. I want the songs to tie together and make sense together. I'm not like, "Oh, I want to explore this idea." That's just not how the creative process works for me. It's more like something strikes me, or finds me, and then I wrestle with it after that. I don't sit back in my armchair, like, "What kind of philosophy can I explore today?"

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  Song, Philosophy, Writing

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I know a girl who cries when she practices violin because each note sounds so pure it just cuts into her, and then the melody comes pouring out her eyes. Now, to me, everything else just sounds like a lie.

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  Girl, Lying, Eye

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• You can only really understand good if you have bad, so the idea of heaven or anything that happens for eternity, even if it's nice, I can't imagine it being nice forever. Even the idea of forever is kind of ridiculous, which is unfortunate because it's kind of a nice thing to say, you know.

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  Nice, Ideas, Forever

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• I drink to stay warm, and to kill selected memories

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  Depression, Memories, Drink

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• I have on many occasions spoken my mind from stage. I have offered organizations table space by the merch booth. I have donated a dollar-a-ticket, or the entire guarantee, to different causes. I have registered voters. I have played on behalf of political candidates.

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  Organization, Space, Political

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