Conor Oberst Quotes

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Conor Oberst

Profession : Musician

Birth : February 15, 1980

I really just want to be warm yellow light that pours over everyone I love.

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I was raised Catholic, and I have an aversion to anyone who takes religion to the extreme.

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I'll never understand how destroying families through deportation benefits our society. How we treat the undocumented says a great deal about us as a people and whether or not we'll continue to fulfill the fundamental American promise of equality and opportunity for all.

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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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It's glorious to be able to go onto the Internet and hear any kind of music anywhere, from anywhere, and get it instantly. But there's also something glorious about having a record with a sleeve and looking at the artwork, putting it on the turntable and playing it, there's still something romantic to me about that.

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They say it's better to bury your sadness in a graveyard or garden that waits for the spring to wake from its sleep and burst into green.

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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.

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I used to work at a school as a teacher's assistant, and my mom is a principal at an elementary school. I don't know, I think that's a pretty good life, teaching kids.

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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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When everything is lonely I can be my best friend.

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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.

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There's a lot of optimism in changing scenery, in seeing what's down the road.

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Art is essentially communication. It doesn't exist in a vacuum. That's why people make art, so other people can relate to it.

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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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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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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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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.

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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.

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There's all body types, but there's just one size.

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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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