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Each Desaparecidos's song has a seed that it came from. We're trying to take that and broaden it out and make it resonate with people.

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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I think our music is more about seeing ourselves in each other and trying to find a more humanistic viewpoint for the world.
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My head's a carousel of pictures and The spinning never stops.
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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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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.
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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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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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We've all seen the power music has to spread messages of solidarity and hope.
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When you look at what people consider success in the music industry, it's just terrible music.
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I understand why people get desensitized and roll their eyes when they hear a protest song, or even a politician making some flowery speech. It doesn't really change anything.
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I swear that I'm dying slowly but it's happening, and if the perfect spring is waiting somewhere... just take me there.
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Screaming is bad for the voice, but it's good for the heart.
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The worst thing you can do as an artist is to repeat yourself.
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I'm happy just because I found out I am really no one
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One by one I drowned all the people I’d been.
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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'm ripe for the picking for the Scientologists - one of those creeps. Someone's got to find me. Some little weird cult can just pluck me up, because I'm ripe for the picking.
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I've cried, and you'd think I'd be better for it, but the sadness just sleeps, and it stays in my spine the rest of my life.
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I really believe in the way the energy can consolidate in certain geographical spots. You can find it in a lot of different places, beautiful natural spots, or if you look at Islam or Judaism or Christianity, these ideas of holy places.
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The sound of loneliness makes me happier.
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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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