Conor Oberst Quotes & Sayings (Page 11)

“My family is Catholic. I went to a Catholic school, that kind of thing, so that was my childhood for sure.”

“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.”

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

“To finish a song is the best feeling in the world.”

“When I would first come to New York on tour, I hated the place.”

“When you write a song, the goal is not to convey the details of your life. You should write a memoir or something if that's what you're going to do.”

“You can do a lot to shape the feeling of a song by the way you record it.”

“In many ways Bright Eyes is really a studio project. We form bands to tour, but it really is - you know, we take the songs and we figure out how to decorate them and it's all in the studio; we build the songs that way.”

“It's dangerous to buy into praise and criticism for what you do when you're trying to present your music to people. I don't ignore it completely, but I don't dwell on it too much.”