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“The first music I ever got into was the '80s alternative bands that my brother listened to, like The Cure and The Smiths and R.E.M. and Fugazi. I can remember specifically saying The Cure was my favorite band back in second grade.”
-- Conor Oberst

#Brother #Alternatives #Band
“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.”
-- Conor Oberst

#Song #Thinking #Self
“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.”
-- Conor Oberst

#Dream #Believe #Flower
“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!"”
-- Conor Oberst

#Song #Fighting #Thinking
“You can't manufacture inspiration, so a lot of it is still a waiting game for me. There's still a lot of mystery to songwriting. I don't have a method that I can go back to - they either come or they don't.”
-- Conor Oberst

#Inspiration #Games #Waiting
“[Popular music]is all about traveling at the speed of you and elevating the individual as the highest thing in the world.”
-- Conor Oberst

#World #Speed #Individual
“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.”
-- Conor Oberst

#Girl #Lying #Eye
“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

#Thinking #Trying #Viewpoints
“If the world could remain within a frame like a painting on the wall, I think we'd see the beauty then and stand staring in awe.”
-- Conor Oberst

#Wall #Fear #Thinking
“Each song [Desaparecidos] 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

#Song #People #Trying
“I like to feel the burn of the audience's eyes when I'm whispering all my darkest secrets into the microphone.”
-- Conor Oberst

#Eye #Secret #Whispering
“I try not to think about the idea of reaching more and more people, because once you get in that mindset, I think you lose the point of why you're doing it in the first place. Still, the best feeling I ever get is when I finish a song, and it exists, and it didn't exist before, and now it's there, and it makes me feel a certain way.”
-- Conor Oberst

#Song #Thinking #Ideas
“Love's an excuse to get hurt.”
-- Conor Oberst

#Hurt #Hurt Feelings #Excuse
“I've been part of running a label since I was a kid, so I understand how it works. But the more and more I learn about it, the less and less interested I am in it.”
-- Conor Oberst

#Running #Kids #Labels
“You should never be embarrassed by your trouble with living, because it's the ones with the sorest throats who have done the most singing.”
-- Conor Oberst

#Singing #Done #Trouble
“I think different musical collaborators bring out different qualities in my songs and I like that.”
-- Conor Oberst

#Song #Thinking #Musical
“When you look at what people consider success in the music industry, it's just terrible music.”
-- Conor Oberst

#People #Looks #Terrible
“Music becomes very personal. When you marry a message you want to send out into the world with good music, all of a sudden you have a very potent way of delivering your message.”
-- Conor Oberst

#World #Want #Way
“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.”
-- Conor Oberst

#Play #Taco Bell #Packaging
“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.”
-- Conor Oberst

#Rocks #Rock And Roll #Records
“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.”
-- Conor Oberst

#Writing #Giving #Charity
“Maybe there's a different story when it comes to hip-hop or different genres, but as far as rock music goes, I think there is a sort of fear of saying things people might be apt to criticize. Our band is the opposite of that.”
-- Conor Oberst

#Thinking #Rocks #Opposites
“They say it's better to bury your sadness in a graveyard or garden that waits for the spring to wake from its sleep and burst into green.”
-- Conor Oberst

#Sad #Spring #Sleep
“Screaming is bad for the voice, but it's good for the heart.”
-- Conor Oberst

#Heart #Voice
“Hip-hop music has done a very good job of maintaining the political context, where they stand and not giving a sh-t what people think.”
-- Conor Oberst

#Jobs #Thinking #People
“My feeling is that I think writers in general tend to be self-conscious and it takes a bit of a leap of faith or just not giving a sh-t to write something you know people are going to criticize.”
-- Conor Oberst

#Writing #Thinking #Self
“I think that hip-hop is more of an individual effort. That means you're an artist from the streets, they expect you to rap about the streets, because that's what happens there.”
-- Conor Oberst

#Rap #Mean #Artist
“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.”
-- Conor Oberst

#Song #Fun #Ideas
“We [ Desaparecidos] try to be the opposite of apathetic. There are so many young people in America that are apathetic.”
-- Conor Oberst

#Opposites #America #People
“Much of appreciating art or music is really the interpretation of the listener. To a certain extent it's projection - it's what people need or lack in themselves that they then put upon these people that they admire.”
-- Conor Oberst

#Art #People #Appreciate

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