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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
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Conor Oberst
Age: 44
Born: 1980
Born: February 15
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Omaha
Nebraska
Conor Mullen Oberst
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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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I think that obviously the quest for purpose, or meaning, or understanding to existence is something that I always think about, always deal with. I guess everybody does - that existential crisis of human condition. It's nothing new. But I'd love to come across something that really made me believe in something.
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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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I find that moving keeps me optimistic, the idea of what's going to be down the road a bit or around the next bend.
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Why are you scared to dream of god when it's salvation that you want?
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I do think that music has a special ability to get behind enemy lines and win hearts and minds.
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One by one I drowned all the people I’d been.
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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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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.
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A boycott is, inherently, a blunt instrument. It is an imperfect weapon, a carpet bomb, when all involved would prefer a surgical strike.
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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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I've given up trying to understand what people think about me.
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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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It's hard to get people to focus on one idea.
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In a coma, you don't dream, you just hope that someone sits with you.
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Well morning came, and it dressed the sky in a lovely yellow gown. Shopping malls are opening in that narrow hallway of downtown, filled with people who are shopping for their lovers and their friends, singing I won't ever be lonely again
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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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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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I kind of go in waves with reading. Sometimes I read all the time, and sometimes I can't get settled enough to focus.
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My head's a carousel of pictures and The spinning never stops.
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