Conor Oberst Quotes - Page 4

It seems like everything I do musically I tend to lose a few fans and gain a few fans, and it all kind of evens out.

I went right from wunderkind to washed up. Old. Been around too long. That's just the way I feel. That's my internal dialogue.

I like the Alice in Wonderland sculpture in Central Park. I love how it's been rained on forever and looks worn down by time.

I have a car in Nebraska. When I bought it, they gave me a satellite radio, and there's an 'indie-rock' station. It's just nothing I'm interested in.

I believe that vinyl will outlast CDs.

I always embrace the worst-case scenario.

Considering our history, I can think of nothing more American than an immigrant.

There's all body types, but there's just one size.

Let the poets cry themselves to sleep, and all their tearful words will turn back into steam.

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.

Screaming is bad for the voice, but it's good for the heart.

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.

When everything is lonely I can be my best friend.

The only thing major labels can really offer is money.

The way my life's structured, I don't stay in a place for more than a couple months.

I have many friends who are both Mexican and Mexican-American and others who, I guess you would say, are somewhere in between. The ironic thing is that all three of those categories often exist inside of the same family.

Every time I finish a song... most of the time it's in my own head, like this sounds too much like a Townes Van Zandt song, or whoever. I realize there are so many melodies and chord progressions in pop and rock music that are so similar that you can kind of trace it back to other things. Most of the time it's just in your head.

Cause I swear that I'm dying, slowly but its happening.

Art is essentially communication. It doesn't exist in a vacuum. That's why people make art, so other people can relate to it.

I’m always fascinated when people really fervently believe, because I have such a hard time believing anything. When people have real faith in something, it’s fascinating to me. And the fact that so many people, in surveys, so many people say they do. It kind of blows my mind.

I'm a real music fan, so I listen to all kinds of music all the time. I listen to a lot of what my friends or people I know are listening to. I'm always checking out new bands.

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.

I prefer career artists that have spent time honing their craft, as opposed to, 'I won a karaoke contest on a reality show and now I have a record.' That's such a drag. The music that comes out of it is so poor.

I like science fiction. Arthur C. Clarke, Philip K. Dick and Vonnegut, and I really like Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale. And you know, so much of science fiction has to do with predicting what’s to come, so I think that’s really interesting.

There's a very fine line between one person's reality and another person's fantasy.