60 Peachy Selected Quotes From Conor Oberst | Status Free Download
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| 60 Peachy Selected Quotes From Conor Oberst |
60 Peachy Selected Quotes From Conor Oberst | FaceBook Status Free Download
I really just want to be warm yellow light that pours over everyone I love.
— Conor Oberst
When everything is lonely I can be my best friend.
— Conor Oberst
Art is essentially communication. It doesn't exist in a vacuum. That's why people make art, so other people can relate to it.
— Conor Oberst
Why are you scared to dream of god when it's salvation that you want?
— Conor Oberst
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
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.
— Conor Oberst
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.
— Conor Oberst
No lies, just love.
— Conor Oberst
Considering our history, I can think of nothing more American than an immigrant.
— Conor Oberst
I was raised Catholic, and I have an aversion to anyone who takes religion to the extreme.
— Conor Oberst
We've all seen the power music has to spread messages of solidarity and hope.
— Conor Oberst
A boycott is, inherently, a blunt instrument. It is an imperfect weapon, a carpet bomb, when all involved would prefer a surgical strike.
— Conor Oberst
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.
— Conor Oberst
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.
— Conor Oberst
There's a lot of optimism in changing scenery, in seeing what's down the road.
— Conor Oberst
I try to make all my songs good. I don't ever write one to finish one. A lot of protest songs end up that way, driven by some kind of emotional response.
— Conor Oberst
I'm always fascinated when people really fervently believe, because I have such a hard time believing anything. When people have real faith in something, it's fascinating to me. And the fact that so many people, in surveys, so many people say they do. It kind of blows my mind.
— Conor Oberst
I think that, with anything creative, you should have the freedom to experiment, and that experimentation means not feeling totally responsible for how other people perceive it.
— Conor Oberst
I've always been slightly preoccupied with death or whatever those kind of silly big questions people will tell you to not spend your time worrying about.
— Conor Oberst
I would prefer to be a little nervous, because when you stop being nervous is kind of when you stop caring.
— Conor Oberst
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.
— Conor Oberst
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.
— Conor Oberst
Screaming is bad for the voice, but it's good for the heart.
— Conor Oberst
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.
— Conor Oberst
There's a very fine line between one person's reality and another person's fantasy.
— Conor Oberst
Sometimes I daydream about having a farm and a wife and some babies and watching the grass grow, but you have to meet the right person for that.
— Conor Oberst
I think there are some songs that stand the test of time better than others for sure. I think some songs go out of favour; I'll get sick of a song for a while, and I won't play it; then it'll make a comeback.
— Conor Oberst
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.
— Conor Oberst
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.
— Conor Oberst
I enjoy recording and performing, but it's the songwriting that I love most.
— Conor Oberst
I like to feel the burn of the audience's eyes when I'm whispering all my darkest secrets into the microphone.
— Conor Oberst
Love's an excuse to get hurt.
— Conor Oberst
There's all body types, but there's just one size.
— Conor Oberst
Let the poets cry themselves to sleep, and all their tearful words will turn back into steam.
— Conor Oberst
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.
— Conor Oberst
We must memorize nine numbers and deny we have a soul.
— Conor Oberst
To me, a political song is also a personal song. Most political activism has been driven by empathy for other people and the desire for a world that's less divisive. Even if songs aren't overtly political, they can make a listener more empathetic.
— Conor Oberst
To outsiders it probably seems like splitting hairs, but to me, Bright Eyes is a simply the collaboration between myself and Mike Mogis and Nate Walcott. What you hear is definitely the sum of all our ideas and represents all three of us. But I still write the songs myself.
— Conor Oberst
I prefer career artists that have spent time honing their craft, as opposed to, 'I won a karaoke contest on a reality show and now I have a record.' That's such a drag. The music that comes out of it is so poor.
— Conor Oberst
There's a small amount of super-wealthy people that want to maintain their billions and billions of dollars. Those are the people who are really making the decisions.
— Conor Oberst
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.
— Conor Oberst
If you think about Protestant and Catholic or Shiite and Sunni, they are basically the same thing... one eats with their left hand, the other eats with their right hand.
— Conor Oberst
I'm a real music fan, so I listen to all kinds of music all the time. I listen to a lot of what my friends or people I know are listening to. I'm always checking out new bands.
— Conor Oberst
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.
— Conor Oberst
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.
— Conor Oberst
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.
— Conor Oberst
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.
— Conor Oberst
The way my life's structured, I don't stay in a place for more than a couple months.
— Conor Oberst
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.
— Conor Oberst
I really believe in the way the energy can consolidate in certain geographical spots. You can find it in a lot of different places, beautiful natural spots, or if you look at Islam or Judaism or Christianity, these ideas of holy places.
— Conor Oberst
When you look at what people consider success in the music industry, it's just terrible music.
— Conor Oberst
When I run into a person or a kid that comes up and gives me the spiel about, 'Hey, I got your record at this time in my life, and it really helped me,' that stuff totally still rings true. If you're standing there talking to someone, it's really easy to tell if they're being authentic or not. And that's great.
— Conor Oberst
I believe that vinyl will outlast CDs.
— Conor Oberst
Joe Arpaio needs no help from me getting attention. For years he has been a beacon of bigotry and intolerance for all the world to see. The list of human and civil-rights abuses he's committed in Maricopa County is long and well documented.
— Conor Oberst
I have many friends who are both Mexican and Mexican-American and others who, I guess you would say, are somewhere in between. The ironic thing is that all three of those categories often exist inside of the same family.
— Conor Oberst
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.
— Conor Oberst
I like science fiction. Arthur C. Clarke, Philip K. Dick and Vonnegut, and I really like Margaret Atwood, 'The Handmaid's Tale.' And you know, so much of science fiction has to do with predicting what's to come, so I think that's really interesting.
— Conor Oberst
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.
— Conor Oberst
There's a major underlying idea as you grow up that you need to just save your money and get that affordable housing at the edge of town where you're away from the city where all the crime happens or whatever.
— Conor Oberst
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.
— Conor Oberst
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