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In a coma, you don't dream, you just hope that someone sits with you.

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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Hope
Dream
Someone
Coma

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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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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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Considering our history, I can think of nothing more American than an immigrant.
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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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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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Although Omaha is my birthplace and the place I grew up, I don't see myself spending extended amounts of time there. I feel almost more comfortable and more at peace in New York.
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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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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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I think it is more like a ghost that has been following us both. Something vague that we're not seeing, something more like a feeling.
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There is no Hell when you die so don't look so worried
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There's nothing that the road cannot heal
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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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When everything is lonely I can be my best friend.
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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.
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I have a car in Nebraska. When I bought it, they gave me a satellite radio, and there's an 'indie-rock' station. It's just nothing I'm interested in.
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Sometimes I worry that I've lost the plot My twitching muscles tease my flippant thoughts I never really dreamed of heaven much Until we put him in the ground. There is nothing as lucky, as easy, or free
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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 don't feel real confident expressing myself except when I'm writing. I feel kind of scatterbrained. I can see everything from both sides and that makes it hard to reach conclusions. Writing enables me to clarify things.
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So when your new eyes meet mine they won't see no lies, just love.
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I think there's a weird self-affirmation thing that happens in popular music in general. It seems like every song I hear on the radio is like, Listen to me roar! or This is my fight song!
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