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Considering our history, I can think of nothing more American than an immigrant.
Conor Oberst
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Conor Oberst
Age: 44
Born: 1980
Born: February 15
Guitarist
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Omaha
Nebraska
Conor Mullen Oberst
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You mean nothing to no one but that's nobody's fault...
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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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There's nothing that the road cannot heal
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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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Everything must belong somewhere. I know that now, that's why I'm staying here.
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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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And I sing and sing of awful things The pleasure that my sadness brings.
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When everything is lonely I can be my best friend.
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There is no Hell when you die so don't look so worried
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Men with purple hearts carry silver guns and they will kill a man for what his father has done. But what my father did, I don't live it: no, I am not him.
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My dad, who plays guitar and piano and was in cover bands, along with my older brother, Matt, taught me guitar and stuff. I started writing acoustic songs and playing by myself in 7th grade.
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It seems like everything I do musically I tend to lose a few fans and gain a few fans, and it all kind of evens out.
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I need some meaning I can memorize. The kind I have always seems to slip my mind.
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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.
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We [Desaparecidos] have to make the message and the music and the packaging as appealing as possible - as Taco Bell as possible: mediocre and no one can be offended by it and everyone can sort of enjoy it and we can play it on the radio.
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I would say I'm a humanist. I like that. I mean, I don't claim to know anything, but I'm curious about it all. I'm always fascinated when people really fervently believe, because I have such a hard time believing anything.
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Popular music is all about traveling at the speed of you and elevating the individual as the highest thing in the world.
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I think that obviously the quest for purpose, or meaning, or understanding to existence is something that I always think about, always deal with. I guess everybody does - that existential crisis of human condition. It's nothing new. But I'd love to come across something that really made me believe in something.
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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.
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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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