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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.

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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Music
Trying
Dwell
Much
Ignore
People
Criticism
Praise
Completely
Dangerous

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I understand why people get desensitized and roll their eyes when they hear a protest song, or even a politician making some flowery speech. It doesn't really change anything.
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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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I think different musical collaborators bring out different qualities in my songs and I like that.
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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 started to sink like the moon tends to do if you stare at it too long Then you blink and it's gone.
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Pronouns really don't matter in a song - 'I' or 'he' or 'she' or even subscribing a lyric to an inanimate object.
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My feeling is that I think writers in general tend to be self-conscious and it takes a bit of a leap of faith or just not giving a sh-t to write something you know people are going to criticize.
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You mean nothing to no one but that's nobody's fault...
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Since the songs were written over a five-year period, I think these are little snapshots. Some people call it political or topical, but I think each song is self-contained. I think it fits together as a picture of the last half-decade of time.
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I've given up trying to understand what people think about me.
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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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My head's a carousel of pictures and The spinning never stops.
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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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The idea of forever is kind of ridiculous, which is unfortunate because its kind of a nice thing to say, you know. I think it softens the blow of mortality and having to say goodbye to everything you know and everyone you love and all that kind of thing.
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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.
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In a coma, you don't dream, you just hope that someone sits with you.
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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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I love story songs. It's just, for me, they're harder to write, and sometimes they sound too intended or something.
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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 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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