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And the sad act like lepers They stick to the shadows They long to ring bells of warning To tell of their coming So that the pure can shut their doors.
Conor Oberst
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Conor Oberst
Age: 44
Born: 1980
Born: February 15
Guitarist
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Omaha
Nebraska
Conor Mullen Oberst
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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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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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It's always the negative things that seep through into your consciousness. Most of the positive things just roll off real fast. I just try not to pay attention to it, because I've never read anything about my band that's accurate.
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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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And your eyes must do some raining if you're ever gonna grow / When crying don't help, you can't compose yourself / It's best to compose a poem, an honest verse of longing / Or a simple song of hope.
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On every Bright Eyes record, there's some kind of sound collage that begins it. Some of them have dialogue, some don't. I like it because it can kind of slow down the attention span a bit. It's a way to draw you in to the rest of the record.
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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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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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Now I believe that lovers should be draped in flowers and laid entwined together on a bed of clover and left there to sleep, left there to dream of their happiness.
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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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In a way, to have whatever people talk about as crossover success, I think it means you start making bad music. I mean, when I'm flipping through the channels and see the VMAs or something, I don't really see any music there.
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The sound of loneliness makes me happier.
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We've all seen the power music has to spread messages of solidarity and hope.
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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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You mean nothing to no one but that's nobody's fault...
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Desaparecidos try to be the opposite of apathetic. There are so many young people in America that are apathetic.
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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've given up trying to understand what people think about me.
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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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