"The first music I ever got into was the '80s alternative bands that my brother listened to, like The Cure and The Smiths and R.E.M. and Fugazi. I can remember specifically saying The Cure was my favorite band back in second grade."

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Source : Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. September 17, 2003.

Conor Oberst

#Brother Quotes #Alternatives Quotes #Band Quotes

“Attack each day with an enthusiasm unknown to mankind.”
“If there is a little sand in the sugar of home happiness, it really seems better to concentrate on the sweetness that remains than to carry around samples of the grit in envelopes of conversational confidence.”
“There are not many people on Team Gary. Actually, it's two people. My kids.”
“Joe Smith and Brigham Young laid out Independence, but very soon thereafter enough citizens of the county collected to drive them off, after several stubborn fights.”
“The great event of the evening was Jenny Lind's appearance and her complete triumph. She has a most exquisite, powerful and really quite peculiar voice, so round, soft and flexible and her acting is charming and touching and very natural.”
“People tend to complicate their own lives, as if living weren't already complicated enough.”

Source : Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.75, Penguin
“Sister Monica Joan murmured, as though to herself, but loud enough to be heard by all, "How perfectly charming. Old enough to know it all, and young enough to blush. Perfectly charming.”
“Entrepreneurs constantly confuse what they do with who they are. We're all certainly responsible for what we do, but failing doesn't make us bad people and succeeding doesn't make us omniscient.”

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