Quote

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.

Conor Oberst

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Conor Oberst
Age: 44
Born: 1980
Born: February 15
Guitarist
Musician
Singer-Songwriter
Omaha
Nebraska
Conor Mullen Oberst
Idea
Major
Underlying
Away
Save
Affordable
Money
City
Housing
Happens
Crime
Edge
Ideas
Grow
Town
Need
Cities
Edges
Needs
Grows
Towns
Whatever
Majors

More quotes by Conor Oberst

Image
Our band is different in the sense that we all are involved with a lot of different projects. It's hard to say when we'll record again, but we're not calling it quits right away.
Conor Oberst
Image
We've all seen the power music has to spread messages of solidarity and hope.
Conor Oberst
Image
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.
Conor Oberst
Image
For a song I was bought Now I lie when I talk With a careful eye on the cue card. Onto a stage I was pushed, With my sorrow well rehearsed. So give me all your pity and your money, now (all of it).
Conor Oberst
Image
It's not a movie, no private screening This method acting, well, I call that living
Conor Oberst
Image
I do think that music has a special ability to get behind enemy lines and win hearts and minds.
Conor Oberst
Image
I've given up trying to understand what people think about me.
Conor Oberst
Image
Why are you scared to dream of god when it's salvation that you want?
Conor Oberst
Image
I think our music is more about seeing ourselves in each other and trying to find a more humanistic viewpoint for the world.
Conor Oberst
Image
For a sunrise or a sunset, you're manic or you're depressed. Will you ever feel ok?
Conor Oberst
Image
We, the Desaparecidos, are perfectly prepared for people to hate what we're saying or not like what we're saying.
Conor Oberst
Image
In a coma, you don't dream, you just hope that someone sits with you.
Conor Oberst
Image
Once you realize that everyone is in the same boat, that everyone is just as insecure and childlike as everyone else, that all these jokers in D.C. ruining our world are just greedy kids grabbing for marbles - I think that realization means you're an adult.
Conor Oberst
Image
A boycott is, inherently, a blunt instrument. It is an imperfect weapon, a carpet bomb, when all involved would prefer a surgical strike.
Conor Oberst
Image
I don't hold anything against Barack Obama. I just think the system is so corrupt, it doesn't matter how well-intentioned someone is, as I believe he was and is. At the end of the day, I think it just comes down to money. This is all about class warfare. All of our political problems.
Conor Oberst
Image
Screaming is bad for the voice, but it's good for the heart.
Conor Oberst
Image
I believe that vinyl will outlast CDs.
Conor Oberst
Image
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!
Conor Oberst
Image
Every time I finish a song... most of the time it's in my own head, like this sounds too much like a Townes Van Zandt song, or whoever. I realize there are so many melodies and chord progressions in pop and rock music that are so similar that you can kind of trace it back to other things. Most of the time it's just in your head.
Conor Oberst
Image
I like to feel the burn of the audience's eyes when I'm whispering all my darkest secrets into the microphone.
Conor Oberst