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Let the poets cry themselves to sleep, and all their tearful words will turn back into steam.

Conor Oberst

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Conor Oberst
Age: 44
Born: 1980
Born: February 15
Guitarist
Musician
Singer-Songwriter
Omaha
Nebraska
Conor Mullen Oberst
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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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Rock and roll seems to have had a mellowing in the business where it got harder to sell individual records and make money doing that.
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I want to be the surgeon who cuts you open Who fixes all of life's mistakes I want to be the house that you were raised in The only place where you feel safe. I wanna be a shower in the morning That wakes you up and makes you clean I know I'm just the weather against your window As you sleep through a winter's dream
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Sometimes I worry that I've lost the plot My twitching muscles tease my flippant thoughts I never really dreamed of heaven much Until we put him in the ground. There is nothing as lucky, as easy, or free
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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 believe that vinyl will outlast CDs.
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I really just want to be warm yellow light that pours over everyone I love.
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And the sad act like lepers They stick to the shadows They long to ring bells of warning To tell of their coming So that the pure can shut their doors.
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Much of appreciating art or music is really the interpretation of the listener. To a certain extent it's projection - it's what people need or lack in themselves that they then put upon these people that they admire.
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Desaparecidos try to be the opposite of apathetic. There are so many young people in America that are apathetic.
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I think our music is more about seeing ourselves in each other and trying to find a more humanistic viewpoint for the world.
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So when your new eyes meet mine they won't see no lies, just love.
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You mean nothing to no one but that's nobody's fault...
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My head's a carousel of pictures and The spinning never stops.
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I'm happy just because I found out I am really no one
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When you look at what people consider success in the music industry, it's just terrible music.
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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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On every Bright Eyes record, there's some kind of sound collage that begins it. Some of them have dialogue, some don't. I like it because it can kind of slow down the attention span a bit. It's a way to draw you in to the rest of the record.
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I think different musical collaborators bring out different qualities in my songs and I like that.
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