110+ Conor Oberst Quotes On Friendship, Introspective And Melancholic

Conor Oberst is an American musician, singer-songwriter and producer from Omaha, Nebraska. He is best known as the frontman of indie rock band Bright Eyes and has released multiple solo albums. Oberst's music is often lyrically focused and often deals with topics such as politics, religion, love and the effects of the modern world. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Conor Oberst on love, friendship, life.

Top 10 Conor Oberst Quotes

1. My head's a carousel of pictures and The spinning never stops.
2. I find that life is easier when it is just a blur With no details to confuse who or what or where I was So when the ending comes the full regret will be obscure
3. 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.
4. It's not a movie, no private screening This method acting, well, I call that living
5. I like to feel the burn of the audience's eyes when I'm whispering all my darkest secrets into the microphone.
6. I drink to stay warm, and to kill selected memories
7. 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.
8. Love's an excuse to get hurt.
9. Men with purple hearts carry silver guns and they will kill a man for what his father has done. But what my father did, I don't live it: no, I am not him.
10. So when your new eyes meet mine they won't see no lies, just love.

Conor Oberst Short Quotes

• We might die from medication but we sure killed all the pain
• We must memorize nine numbers and deny we have a soul.
• Cause I swear that I'm dying, slowly but its happening.
• There's a lot of optimism in changing scenery, in seeing what's down the road.
• It's hard to get people to focus on one idea.
• I think different musical collaborators bring out different qualities in my songs and I like that.
• For a sunrise or a sunset, you're manic or you're depressed. Will you ever feel ok?
• I've given up trying to understand what people think about me.
• I do think that music has a special ability to get behind enemy lines and win hearts and minds.
• I'm kind of like, "never say never."

Conor Oberst Quotes About Love

Well morning came, and it dressed the sky in a lovely yellow gown. Shopping malls are opening in that narrow hallway of downtown, filled with people who are shopping for their lovers and their friends, singing "I won't ever be lonely again — Conor Oberst

If you love something, give it away... — Conor Oberst

The idea of forever is kind of ridiculous, which is unfortunate because its kind of a nice thing to say, you know. I think it softens the blow of mortality and having to say goodbye to everything you know and everyone you love and all that kind of thing. — Conor Oberst

i keep drinking the ink from my pen and i'm balancing history books up on my head but it all boils down to one quotable phrase if you love something give it away — Conor Oberst

Love's an excuse to get hurt and to hurt. Do you like to hurt? I do, I do then hurt me. — Conor Oberst

There was this book I read and loved, The story of a ship Who sailed around the world and found That nothing else exists Beyond its own two sails And wooden shell And what is held within. All else is sure to pass. We clutch and grasp And debate what's truly permanent. — Conor Oberst

I love story songs. It's just, for me, they're harder to write, and sometimes they sound too intended or something. — Conor Oberst

If I loved you, well that's my fault — Conor Oberst

I think in a lot of ways unconditional love is a myth. My mom's the only reason I know it's a real thing. — Conor Oberst

I need some meaning I can memorize. The kind I have always seems to slip my mind. — Conor Oberst

Conor Oberst Quotes About Dream

In a coma, you don't dream, you just hope that someone sits with you. — Conor Oberst

Why are you scared to dream of god when it's salvation that you want? — Conor Oberst

Sometimes I worry that I've lost the plot My twitching muscles tease my flippant thoughts I never really dreamed of heaven much Until we put him in the ground. There is nothing as lucky, as easy, or free — Conor Oberst

Conor Oberst Quotes About Eyes

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

I understand why people get desensitized and roll their eyes when they hear a protest song, or even a politician making some flowery speech. It doesn't really change anything. — Conor Oberst

For a song I was bought Now I lie when I talk With a careful eye on the cue card. Onto a stage I was pushed, With my sorrow well rehearsed. So give me all your pity and your money, now (all of it). — Conor Oberst

And your eyes must do some raining if you're ever gonna grow / When crying don't help, you can't compose yourself / It's best to compose a poem, an honest verse of longing / Or a simple song of hope. — Conor Oberst

Conor Oberst Quotes About World

I'm not the most technically savvy person in the world. Like, I'm not good at troubleshooting when stuff happens to my digital music. — Conor Oberst

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

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

Popular music is all about traveling at the speed of you and elevating the individual as the highest thing in the world. — Conor Oberst

The world's become a little too mean. — Conor Oberst

Conor Oberst Famous Quotes And Sayings

I came upon a doctor who appeared in quite poor health. I said, 'There's nothing that I can do for you that you can't do for yourself.' He said, 'Oh yes you can. Just hold my hand. I think that that would help.' So I sat with him a while then I asked him how he felt. He said, 'I think I'm cured.' — Conor Oberst

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

And in the morning when the sun rise. Look in the water, see the blue sky. As if heaven has been laid there at our feet. — Conor Oberst

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

The Bible's blind, the Torah's deaf, the Qur'an is mute; if you burned them all together you'd get close to the truth. — Conor Oberst

As long as I can buy records and books and maybe some clothes, I'm pretty stoked. I don't need a yacht or anything. — Conor Oberst

I think that obviously the quest for purpose, or meaning, or understanding to existence is something that I always think about, always deal with. I guess everybody does - that existential crisis of human condition. It's nothing new. But I'd love to come across something that really made me believe in something. — Conor Oberst

I started to sink like the moon tends to do if you stare at it too long Then you blink and it's gone. — Conor Oberst

I swear that I'm dying slowly but it's happening, and if the perfect spring is waiting somewhere... just take me there. — Conor Oberst

The sound of loneliness makes me happier. — Conor Oberst

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

Some days I feel like I'm an atheist. Most days, I feel like an agnostic. On a very rare day, I feel like I'm a believer in something. — Conor Oberst

I think it is more like a ghost that has been following us both. Something vague that we're not seeing, something more like a feeling. — Conor Oberst

My dad, who plays guitar and piano and was in cover bands, along with my older brother, Matt, taught me guitar and stuff. I started writing acoustic songs and playing by myself in 7th grade. — Conor Oberst

I want to be enriched by the music I listen to. That's the reason it never really exists in the mainstream. Because that's not what most people are after. — Conor Oberst

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

In a way, to have whatever people talk about as "crossover success," I think it means you start making bad music. I mean, when I'm flipping through the channels and see the VMAs or something, I don't really see any music there. — Conor Oberst

The drunk kids, the catholics They're all about the same They're waiting for something Hoping to be saved — Conor Oberst

Because the truth is that gossip is as good as gospel in this town. You can save face but you won't ever save your soul. And that's a fact. — Conor Oberst

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

I want to be the surgeon who cuts you open Who fixes all of life's mistakes I want to be the house that you were raised in The only place where you feel safe. I wanna be a shower in the morning That wakes you up and makes you clean I know I'm just the weather against your window As you sleep through a winter's dream — Conor Oberst

They say they don't know when but a day is gonna come. When there won't be a moon and there won't be a sun. It will just go black. It will just go back to the way it was before. — Conor Oberst

You mean nothing to no one but that's nobody's fault... — Conor Oberst

If there's ever a kid out there that can't afford to buy the music, I still want them to hear it, and hopefully they'll go to the show, or buy a T-shirt from the band. That's the idea. — Conor Oberst

We're all too busy working, entertaining ourselves With forty hours, television and prescription pills Well, I take two a day to help my brain behave It never does, but who's to say? At least my doctor gets paid. — Conor Oberst

And the sad act like lepers They stick to the shadows They long to ring bells of warning To tell of their coming So that the pure can shut their doors. — Conor Oberst

I'm happy just because I found out I am really no one — Conor Oberst

So I wait for the day when I'll hear the key as it turns in the lock And the guard will say to me, "Oh my patient prisoner you waited for this day and finally, you are free! You are free! You are free! — Conor Oberst

There's nothing that the road cannot heal — Conor Oberst

I don't hold anything against Barack Obama. I just think the system is so corrupt, it doesn't matter how well-intentioned someone is, as I believe he was and is. At the end of the day, I think it just comes down to money. This is all about class warfare. All of our political problems. — Conor Oberst

Little soldier, little insect You know war it has no heart It will kill you in the sunshine Or happily in the the dark Where kindness is a card game Or a bent up cigarette In the trenches, in the hard rain With a bullet and a bet. — Conor Oberst

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

And I sing and sing of awful things The pleasure that my sadness brings. — Conor Oberst

I wanna be your happiness. I wanna be your common sense pain. — Conor Oberst

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

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

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

Everything must belong somewhere. I know that now, that's why I'm staying here. — Conor Oberst

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

I drug your ghost across the country, and we plotted out my death. Every city and memory we whispered "Here is where you rest." Well I was determined in Chicago but I dug my teeth into my knees And I settled for a telephone, sang into your machine: "You are my sunshine, my only sunshine. — Conor Oberst

I'm ripe for the picking for the Scientologists - one of those creeps. Someone's got to find me. Some little weird cult can just pluck me up, because I'm ripe for the picking. — Conor Oberst

Everything that happens is supposed to be And it's all pre-determined, can't change your destiny Guess I'll just keep moving, someday maybe I'll get to where I'm going — Conor Oberst

I would say I'm a humanist. I like that. I mean, I don't claim to know anything, but I'm curious about it all. I'm always fascinated when people really fervently believe, because I have such a hard time believing anything. — Conor Oberst

I definitely think religion is responsible for a lot of the evils of the world. I mean that's not really in debate. But at the same time, I think whatever gets you through the day, whatever helps you make sense of life I'm not gonna begrudge my grandmother with her rosary beads. It works for them. And at the end of the day, I don't claim to know the answer to anything. — Conor Oberst

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

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

We, the Desaparecidos, are perfectly prepared for people to hate what we're saying or not like what we're saying. — Conor Oberst

A lot of the mythology that sprung up around Haile Selassie, it's not like something he asked for, having people deify him. That's pretty heavy. I don't know what you do in that situation. — Conor Oberst

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

There is no Hell when you die so don't look so worried — Conor Oberst

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

Rastafarianism and reggae music have always kind of resonated with me. Those ideas of redemption, liberation and overcoming oppression through music, weed and community. Fighting evil through love and music, I think it's just a really powerful idea. — Conor Oberst

It's always the negative things that seep through into your consciousness. Most of the positive things just roll off real fast. I just try not to pay attention to it, because I've never read anything about my band that's accurate. — Conor Oberst

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

I liked the idea of having a record that's reggae-influenced but not musically, just lyrically. I think there's so much about Rasta culture that's interesting. Just the idea of preaching one-ness, that we're all in this together. Which I suppose is at the root of most any religion. You're gonna find it, if taken in the right context. — Conor Oberst

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. — Conor Oberst

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

I'd rather be working for a paycheck, than waiting to win the lottery. Besides, maybe this time it's different, I mean, I really think you like me. — Conor Oberst

Desaparecidos try to be the opposite of apathetic. There are so many young people in America that are apathetic. — Conor Oberst

People resist change; if they like something, then they want you to keep doing it over and over - but I think if you like what a particular band or artist does, then you should want to see what they're going to do next. — Conor Oberst

You could be happy, the minute you try. Why won't you try? Oh won't you try? — Conor Oberst

And I never thought this life was possible,You're the yellow bird that I've been waiting for. In polaroids you were dressed in women's clothes Were you made ashamed, why'd you lock them in a drawer? Well, I don't think that I ever loved you more Well let the poets cry themselves to sleep And all their tearful words will turn back into steam The sound of loneliness makes me happier. — Conor Oberst

Cause a costume can be comfortable It can make you feel more beautiful It can even make you look like someone else But it's still you, so there's nothing you can do Like a bad habit, the one you couldn't kick, there it always is And it's nothing that no doctor's gonna fix. — Conor Oberst

And me I'm in my bedroom drawing in my notebook Because my hand thinks I'm an artist But my heart knows I'm a poet It's just words they mean so little to me. — Conor Oberst

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

I believe that vinyl will outlast CDs. There's no reason for it, but it stays around because there are still people that want them. — Conor Oberst

we made love on the living room floor with the noise in the background of a televised war and in that defeaning pleasure i thought i heard someone say if we walk away they'll walk away — Conor Oberst

If I could act like This was my real life, And not some cage where I've been placed, Well then, I could tell you The truth like I used to And not be afraid of sounding fake. — Conor Oberst

I don't see any harm in letting whatever comes out come out of you, even if it's sort of weird, or dark, or painful, or too embarrassing, or whatever. I feel like you might as well get it down for yourself. It can't do anything but help you get to where you want to be by recognizing the thoughts that you're having. — Conor Oberst

It's exploding bags, aerosol cans Southbound buses, Peter Pan They left it up to us again I thought you knew the drill It's kill or be killed. — Conor Oberst

My Brother went to college To become a doctor And if he studies hard enough He'll end up just like papa, who hates his life. — Conor Oberst

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. — Conor Oberst

Life Lessons by Conor Oberst

1. Conor Oberst's music often reflects themes of resilience, perseverance, and hope, emphasizing the importance of staying true to oneself and never giving up.
2. He encourages his listeners to take risks, be brave, and be open to new experiences, even if they may lead to failure.
3. Through his music, Oberst also reminds us to be kind and compassionate to those around us, and to always strive to make the world a better place.