Conor Oberst Quotes

• Love’s an excuse to get hurt.

   

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  Tags in Excuse, Hurt

• 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.

  Conor Oberst

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  Tags in Sadness, Better

• 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.

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  Tags in Happiness, Believe, Together

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

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  Tags in Body, Size

• No lies, just love.

  Conor Oberst

  Topics in Love

  Tags in Lies

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

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  Tags in Good, Heart

• When everything is lonely I can be my best friend.

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  Tags in Best, Everything, Friend

• Why are you scared to dream of god when it’s salvation that you want?

  Conor Oberst

  Topics in God

  Tags in dream, Scared

• 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

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  Tags in Girl, Everything

• I like to feel the burn of the audience’s eyes when I’m whispering all my darkest secrets into the microphone.

  Conor Oberst

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  Tags in Secrets, Audience

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

  Conor Oberst

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  Tags in Sleep, Poets

• 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

  Topics in Beauty

  Tags in Think, Remain

• 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

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  Tags in Sadness, Better

• We must memorize nine numbers and deny we have a soul.

  Conor Oberst

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  Tags in Memorize
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  I really just want to be warm yellow light that pours over everyone i love.

  Conor Oberst

  Topics in Love

  Tags in Really, Light

Conor Oberst (15)

Birth:	15th February, 1980
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Lyricist, Musician, Singer

About

Conor Mullen Oberst was born in Omaha, Nebraska. He is an American musician, singer and songwriter best known for his work in Bright Eyes. He has also played in several other bands, including Desaparecidos, Norman Bailer, Commander Venus, Park Ave., Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band, Arab Strap and Monsters of Folk. He was named the Best Songwriter of 2008 by Rolling Stone magazine. In mid-1993, Oberst self-released his debut album Water on cassette tape. He released a new solo record, titled Upside Down Mountain, on May 19, 2014. He wrote and performed the song "Anonymous" for Chelsea Manning, the alleged Wikileaks whistleblower.

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