"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."

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Source : "Conor Oberst of Bright Eyes". Interview with Gregg LaGambina, www.avclub.com. December 11, 2007.

Conor Oberst

#Song Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Ideas Quotes

“I think it's a mistake to rely too much on any one economic factor. It's why investors try to spread their portfolio round.”
“I'm self-conscious in photo shoots. I much prefer to do interviews and talk about the work.”
“In science we kill our hypothesis instead of each other.”
“I found it better for my soul to be humble before the mysteries o' God's dealings, and not be making a clatter about what I could never understand.”
“Being close ain't good enough.”
“If my mind's not trying to fix something or create something, I don't know what to do. It just throws me off.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Note-taking is important to me: a week's worth of reading notes (or "thoughts I had in the shower" notes) is cumulatively more interesting than anything I might be able to come up with on a single given day.”
“This is the most immediate fruit of exile, of uprooting: the prevalence of the unreal over the real. Everyone dreamed past and future dreams, of slavery and redemption, of improbable paradises, of equally mythical and improbable enemies; cosmic enemies, perverse and subtle, who pervade everything like the air.”

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