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I've thought about the idea of, 'Can happiness and creativity co-exist?' So much of what I've done, I think, has been based on being dissatisfied or incomplete or lonely. The answer is, 'There isn't an answer, necessarily.'

~Conor Oberst

Topics: About Answer Based Been Being Creativity Dissatisfied Done Happiness Idea Incomplete Lonely Much Necessarily Think Thought I Think

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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.

~Conor Oberst

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I like ideas, but I don't like being preached to.

~Conor Oberst

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My favorite rhymes are sort of half-rhymes where you might just get the vowel sound the same, but it's not really a true rhyme. That gives you far more flexibility to capture the feeling you're trying to express. But sometimes it's best not to have any rhyme.

~Conor Oberst

Topics: Any Best Capture Express Far Favorite Feeling Flexibility Get Gives Just Might More Really Rhyme Rhymes Same Sometimes Sort Sound True Trying Vowel Where You

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The worst thing you can do as an artist is to repeat yourself.

~Conor Oberst

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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

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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

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I've given up trying to understand what people think about me. It seems like a lot of people don't like the music we make and don't know me, or something.

~Conor Oberst

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I enjoy recording and performing, but it's the songwriting that I love most.

~Conor Oberst

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I try to keep the idea that there's an audience in as little space in my mind as possible, but you can't erase it entirely, the idea that when you're sitting down to write a song, people are going to hear it.

~Conor Oberst

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Musician

Born: February 15th, 1980

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