341 Quotes by Conor Oberst

Love’s an excuse to get hurt and to hurt. Do you like to hurt? I do, I do then hurt me.

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.

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.

Life is always surprising to me. When you think it’s going to get dull, it never really does.

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.

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.

We’ve all seen the power music has to spread messages of solidarity and hope.

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.

I like to feel the burn of the audience’s eyes when I’m whispering all my darkest secrets into the microphone.