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Song Quotes by 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…
- 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…
- Pronouns really don't matter in a song - 'I' or 'he' or 'she' or even subscribing a lyric to an inanimate object.
- 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…
- To me, a political song is also a personal song. Most political activism has been driven by empathy for other people and the desire for…
- To outsiders it probably seems like splitting hairs, but to me, Bright Eyes is a simply the collaboration between myself and Mike Mogis and Nate…
- When I try to explain to people the big influences in my life, or at least when I first started, the most important ones were…
- You can do a lot to shape the feeling of a song by the way you record it.
- To finish a song is the best feeling in the world.
More Song Quotes
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- All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song. — Louis Armstrong
- Storytelling is a very old human skill that gives us an evolutionary advantage. If you can tell young people how you kill… — Margaret Atwood
- You must pass your days in song. Let your whole life be a song. — Sai Baba
- Every single band in the world has these gigantic songs that people are obsessed with. — Sebastian Bach
- I don't understand the mentality of a rock fan, being obsessed with two or three songs from 25 years ago. I'm not… — Sebastian Bach
- A lot of people when they try to sing Skid Row songs, they're screaming and yelling too much. It's more singing than… — Sebastian Bach
- To think that when they come out with these gigantic songs, it's pretty tough to top them, you know. — Sebastian Bach
- My songs are like cheap Neil Young copies. — Randy Bachman
- I don't have one song that sounds like another one in my entire catalog. — Erykah Badu
- A songwriter writes songs all the time, whereas just writing a song can be done by anyone, anytime. — Bryan Adams