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When you look at what people consider success in the music industry, it's just terrible music.
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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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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It's dangerous to buy into praise and criticism for what you do when you're trying to present your music to people. I don't ignore it completely, but I don't dwell on it too much.
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Maybe there's a different story when it comes to hip-hop or different genres, but as far as rock music goes, I think there is a sort of fear of saying things people might be apt to criticize. Our band is the opposite of that.
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I think different musical collaborators bring out different qualities in my songs and I like that.
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I really just want to be warm yellow light that pours over everyone I love.
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And me I'm in the bathroom crying out my eyelids because it's hard to be a man when you're scared, just like a little kid.
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Each Desaparecidos's song has a seed that it came from. We're trying to take that and broaden it out and make it resonate with people.
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I've given up trying to understand what people think about me.
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There is no Hell when you die so don't look so worried
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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.
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Let the poets cry themselves to sleep, and all their tearful words will turn back into steam.
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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'm kind of like, never say never.
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