Conor Oberst Quotes
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I liked the idea of having a record that's reggae-influenced but not musically, just lyrically. 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. Which I suppose is at the root of most any religion. You're gonna find it, if taken in the right context.
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Life is always surprising to me. When you think it's going to get dull, it never really does.
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You could be happy, the minute you try.Why won't you try? Oh won't you try?
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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.
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I love story songs. It's just, for me, they're harder to write, and sometimes they sound too intended or something.
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A boycott is, inherently, a blunt instrument. It is an imperfect weapon, a carpet bomb, when all involved would prefer a surgical strike.
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Cause I swear that I'm dying, slowly but its happening.
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I think different musical collaborators bring out different qualities in my songs and I like that.
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When I was younger, I was somewhat of an idealist. I guess I'm a little bit more of a realist now. I think there's a lot that can be done to make the world a better place, but it's more about choosing your battles.
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So hurry up and run to the one that you love. And blind him with your kindness. And he'll make war, oh war, On who you were before. And he'll claim all that has spoiled in your heart.
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I really just want to be warm yellow light that pours over everyone I love.
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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.
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A lot of the mythology that sprung up around Haile Selassie, it's not like something he asked for, having people deify him. That's pretty heavy. I don't know what you do in that situation.
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When I try to explain to people the big influences in my life, or at least when I first started, the most important ones were my friends who were also writing songs and were typically four or five years older than me.
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As long as I can buy records and books and maybe some clothes, I'm pretty stoked. I don't need a yacht or anything.
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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.
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There's a lot of optimism in changing scenery, in seeing what's down the road.
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Each Desaparecidos's song has a seed that it came from. We're trying to take that and broaden it out and make it resonate with people.
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My feeling is that I think writers in general tend to be self-conscious and it takes a bit of a leap of faith or just not giving a sh-t to write something you know people are going to criticize.
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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.
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When you're 16 or 17, I think like most people that age, the first time you experience certain things in life, whether it's heartbreak or death or love, obviously it's going to seem like a much bigger deal.
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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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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.
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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.