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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.
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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One by one I drowned all the people I’d been.
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Why are you scared to dream of god when it's salvation that you want?
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To me, a political song is also a personal song. Most political activism has been driven by empathy for other people and the desire for a world that's less divisive. Even if songs aren't overtly political, they can make a listener more empathetic.
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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.
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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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We're going to sing about things that matter to us. The balancing act is to present these ideas but also make the music exciting and sort of fun enough that even if you're not paying attention to the lyrics, you might still like the songs anyway. That's the idea.
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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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And I sing and sing of awful things The pleasure that my sadness brings.
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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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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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You mean nothing to no one but that's nobody's fault...
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If I could act like This was my real life, And not some cage where I've been placed, Well then, I could tell you The truth like I used to And not be afraid of sounding fake.
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With science and reason throughout history, what people believed turned out to be false. So I like to keep an open mind to all perspectives and learn and become more fully realised as a person. I just feel we're never going to know what the full picture is.
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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 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 [Desaparecidos] have to make the message and the music and the packaging as appealing as possible - as Taco Bell as possible: mediocre and no one can be offended by it and everyone can sort of enjoy it and we can play it on the radio.
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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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I think in a lot of ways unconditional love is a myth. My mom's the only reason I know it's a real thing.
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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 started to sink like the moon tends to do if you stare at it too long Then you blink and it's gone.
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