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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.
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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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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Everything must belong somewhere. I know that now, that's why I'm staying here.
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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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I've given up trying to understand what people think about me.
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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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I need some meaning I can memorize. The kind I have always seems to slip my mind.
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There is no Hell when you die so don't look so worried
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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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We, the Desaparecidos, are perfectly prepared for people to hate what we're saying or not like what we're saying.
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I know a girl who cries when she practices violin because each note sounds so pure it just cuts into her, and then the melody comes pouring out her eyes. Now, to me, everything else just sounds like a lie.
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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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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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It's in vogue to have a cause and give money in charity. But to actually speak up and say something like, I'm pissed about this - that doesn't seem to be very popular unless you're writing a blog or tweeting.
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For a sunrise or a sunset, you're manic or you're depressed. Will you ever feel ok?
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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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We've all seen the power music has to spread messages of solidarity and hope.
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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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You mean nothing to no one but that's nobody's fault...
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