Conor Oberst Quotes

Ambition, I’ve found, can lead only to failure. I do not read the reviews. No, I am not singing for you.

Conor Oberst Bright Eyes

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• In America, there's a failure to appreciate Europe's leading role in the world.

  

  Barack Obama
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• I was singing in a mall, and I picked a girl to come up onstage with me. As I was grabbing her hand, I fell off the stage. It felt like I was in the air forever, flying like Superman.

  

  Aaron Carter
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• My mother adores singing and plays piano. My uncle was a phenomenal pianist. My brother John is a double bassist. I used to play the piano, badly, and cello. My brother Peter played violin.

  

  Fiona Shaw
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• Well, as an artist, I think that Elvis's generosity to me he always talked very highly about me, he always spoke very highly about my work and singing and my writing.

  

  Jackie DeShannon
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• Our parents were really, really grounded people but also really ambitious people, meaning they saw our ambition and were willing to help us chase it.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
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• Escapism, we are led to believe, is evidence of a deficiency in character, a certain failure of temperament, and like so many -isms, it is to be strenuously avoided. 'How do you expect to get ahead?,' people ask. But the question altogether misses the point. The escapist doesn't want to get ahead. He simply wants to get away.

  

  J. Maarten Troost
  • People
  • Believe
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• Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Power
  • Desire
  • Ambition

• I really wish that I would have gone to college. Even my son, who's into rap himself, I tell him and tell his children, 'Go to college. Get that education - it is so important. Don't do like I did.' I had all this singing on my mind, and I just didn't have time for it.

  

  Barbara Lynn
  • Time
  • Important
  • Mind

• The idea of capitalism is not just success but also the failure that allows success to happen.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Success
  • Failure
  • Capitalism

• My daughter loves singing above all else.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • Singing
  • Daughter
  • Above

• Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue.

  

  Sallust
  • Men
  • Thought
  • Ambition

• We pushed our first record, 'Boomerang,' to different labels, but it was hard for them to see though the 'white guys singing R&B' thing.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Different
  • Singing
  • See

• My friend was on dialysis for six years before he got a new kidney. I was on dialysis for eight months. I'm almost not even the typical person who has kidney failure.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Friend
  • Failure
  • Years

• I think we're right up there with Herman's Hermits and the other greats. Maybe somewhere between Herman's Hermits and the Gershwins.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Up
  • Think
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• Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.

  

  Quintilian
  • Ambition
  • Parent
  • Often

• I don't think it's that I don't like Sondheim. It's that I find it really... I don't know how to describe it. Doing it is the most extraordinary thing. Because it's like Shakespeare times 100 with singing. It's that satisfying - and that demanding.

  

  Imelda Staunton
  • Think
  • Know
  • Singing

• Sitting on a bedroom floor crying is something that makes you feel really alone. If someone's singing about that feeling, you feel bonded to that person. That's the only way I can find an explanation for why 55,000 people would want to come see me sing.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Why
  • Feeling

• College football, acting, opera singing - I approached them all in the same obsessive way.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • College
  • Football
  • Singing

• It's kind of exhilarating, walking through a crazy, insane mob. The most miraculous process is watching a song go from a tiny idea in the middle of the night to something that 55,000 people are singing back to you.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Song
  • Night

• I stopped singing for a long time because it just wasn't something I was very passionate about.

  

  BeBe Winans
  • Time
  • Long
  • Singing

• There was always music playing in the house. I started singing at three, like my sisters did. When I was around four, we decided to put together a group and had so much fun with it.

  

  China Anne McClain
  • Music
  • Together
  • Fun

• Attention may sound dull, but it is an essential aspect of consciousness. In fact, it governs what it is that we turn out to be conscious of, and therefore plays a part in the coming into being of whatever exists for us.

  

  Iain McGilchrist
  • May
  • Attention
  • Sound

• If you haven't understood that if you are born you die, you scarcely deserve to be able to be alive.

  

  Joanna Lumley
  • Die

• Ambition, I’ve found, can lead only to failure. I do not read the reviews. No, I am not singing for you.

  

  Conor Oberst Bright Eyes
  • Singing
  • Failure
  • Ambition