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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
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Singer-Songwriter
Omaha
Nebraska
Conor Mullen Oberst
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My head's a carousel of pictures and The spinning never stops.
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I think different musical collaborators bring out different qualities in my songs and I like that.
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Because the truth is that gossip is as good as gospel in this town. You can save face but you won't ever save your soul. And that's a fact.
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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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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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I do think that music has a special ability to get behind enemy lines and win hearts and minds.
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In a way, to have whatever people talk about as crossover success, I think it means you start making bad music. I mean, when I'm flipping through the channels and see the VMAs or something, I don't really see any music there.
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The worst thing you can do as an artist is to repeat yourself.
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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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Everything that happens is supposed to be And it's all pre-determined, can't change your destiny Guess I'll just keep moving, someday maybe I'll get to where I'm going
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I kind of go in waves with reading. Sometimes I read all the time, and sometimes I can't get settled enough to focus.
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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.
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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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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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So I wait for the day when I'll hear the key as it turns in the lock And the guard will say to me, Oh my patient prisoner you waited for this day and finally, you are free! You are free! You are free!
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