Conor Oberst: Trending quotes (page 3)

“There is nothing as lucky, as easy, or free”

Conor Oberst

Easy/Lucky/Free
Digital Ash in a Digital Urn (2005)

“And it's too hard to focus through all this doubt
I keep making this to-do list but nothing gets crossed out
Working on the record seems pointless now
When the world ends who's gonna hear it?”

Conor Oberst

Lifted or The Story Is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground (2002)

World

“Well is it your fear of being buried
that makes you so afraid to speak?”

Conor Oberst

Lifted or The Story Is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground (2002)

Fear

“It's not a movie,
no private screening
This method acting,
well, I call that living”

Conor Oberst

Method Acting
Lifted or The Story Is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground (2002)

“As they take eye for an eye until no one can see,
we must stumble blindly forward, repeating history.”

Conor Oberst

Let's Not Shit Ourselves
Lifted or The Story Is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground (2002)

History

“But where was it when I first heard that sweet sound of humility?
It came to my ears in the goddamn loveliest melody!
How grateful I was, then, to be part of the mystery,
To love, and to be loved!
Let’s just hope that is enough.”

Conor Oberst

Let's Not Shit Ourselves (To Love and to Be Loved)
Lifted or The Story Is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground (2002)

Love , Hope , Parting

“You mean nothing to no one but that's nobody's fault.”

Conor Oberst

Soul Singer in a Session Band
Cassadaga (2007)

“a good woman will pick you apart
a box full of suggestions for your possible heart
and you may be offended. and you may be afraid
but don't walk away, don't walk away”

Conor Oberst

landlocked blues
I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning (2005)

Heart , Box

“And in the morning when the sun rise.
Look in the water, see the blue sky.
As if heaven has been laid there at our feet.”

Conor Oberst

Sausalito
Conor Oberst (2008)

Water , Sun

“And me I'm in the bathroom
crying out my eyelids because it's hard to be a man
when you're scared, just like a little kid.”

Conor Oberst

Saturday as Usual
A Collection of Songs Written and Recorded 1995-1997 (1998)

Cry

“Honesty" "Accuracy" is just "Popular Opinion.”

Conor Oberst

Lifted or The Story Is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground (2002)

“He once cut one of my nightmares out of paper.
I thought it was beautiful, I put it on a record cover.”

Conor Oberst

Lifted or The Story Is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground (2002)

Beauty

“And each new act of war is tonight's entertainment.
We're still the pawns in their game.”

Conor Oberst

Lifted or The Story Is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground (2002)

War , Game

“And I'm sorry about the phone call and needing you
Some decisions you don't make
I guess it's just like breathing or not wanting to
There are some things you can't fake”

Conor Oberst

Noise Floor (Rarities: 1998-2005) (2006)

Decision

“For a song I was bought
Now I lie when I talk
With a careful eye on the cue card.
Onto a stage I was pushed,
With my sorrow well rehearsed.
So give me all your pity and your money, now (all of it).”

Conor Oberst

False Advertising
Lifted or The Story Is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground (2002)

Money , Lie

“So hurry up and run to the one that you love.
And blind him with your kindness.
And he'll make war, oh war,
On who you were before.
And he'll claim all that has spoiled in your heart.”

Conor Oberst

Lifted or The Story Is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground (2002)

Love , War , Heart

“So I wait for the day
when I'll hear the key
as it turns in the lock
And the guard will say to me,
"Oh my patient prisoner
you waited for this day and finally,
you are free!
You are free!
You are free!"”

Conor Oberst

From A Balance Beam
Lifted or The Story Is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground (2002)

Waiting

“I guess the best that I can do now
is to pretend that I've done nothing wrong
and to dream about a train
that's gonna take me back where I belong”

Conor Oberst

I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning (2005)

Dreams , Training

“If you walk away I'll walk away
first tell me which road you will take
I don't want to risk our paths crossing someday
so you walk that way I'll walk this way”

Conor Oberst

I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning (2005)

Way

“The sound of loneliness makes me happier”

Conor Oberst

Poison Oak
I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning (2005)

Loneliness