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Conor Oberst

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Conor Oberst

“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.”

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Conor Oberst

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

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Conor Oberst

“I really just want to be warm yellow light that pours over everyone I love.”

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Conor Oberst

“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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Conor Oberst

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

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Conor Oberst

“No lies, just love.”

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“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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Conor Oberst

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

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Conor Oberst

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

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Conor Oberst

“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.”

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Conor Oberst

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

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Conor Oberst

“When everything is lonely I can be my best friend.”

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Conor Oberst

“Why are you scared to dream of god when it's salvation that you want?”

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Conor Oberst

“I never fuck with Facebook. I absolutely despise social networking. I think it's truly going to result in the destruction of mankind. Sometimes I just wish I didn't live in this time. Before, there was so much more freedom and privacy, and you could truly escape places.”

Source/Notes: As quoted in Conor Oberst's Mystical Awakening by Chris Norris in Rolling Stone (25 June 2009), p. 66-84

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