Conor Oberst Quotes About Eyes

Quotes about: Eyes

• I know a girl who cries when she practices violin because each note sounds so pure it just cuts into her, and then the melody comes pouring out her eyes. Now, to me, everything else just sounds like a lie.

  Conor Oberst

  Girl, Lying, Eye

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

  Conor Oberst

  Eye, Secret, Whispering

• So when your new eyes meet mine they won't see no lies, just love.

  Conor Oberst

  Lying, Eye, Deceit

• 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

  Song, Lying, Eye

• I understand why people get desensitized and roll their eyes when they hear a protest song, or even a politician making some flowery speech. It doesn't really change anything.

  Conor Oberst

  Song, Eye, People

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

• All those experiences were a chance to learn more about music. Playing with the Valley band is like such a "live" band. I mean, really, in many ways Bright Eyes is really a studio project. We form bands to tour, but it really is - you know, we take the songs and we figure out how to decorate them and it's all in the studio, we build the songs that way. Whereas Mystic Valley Band was the exact opposite, where everybody knows what they are gonna be playing on the song and there's sort of a general stylistic approach, and then it's just plug in and play.

  Conor Oberst

  Song, Mean, Eye

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• On every Bright Eyes record, there's some kind of sound collage that begins it. Some of them have dialogue, some don't. I like it because it can kind of slow down the attention span a bit. It's a way to draw you in to the rest of the record.

  Conor Oberst

  Eye, Sound, Attention

• 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 Walcott. What you hear is definitely the sum of all our ideas and represents all three of us. But I still write the songs myself.

  Conor Oberst

  Song, Eye, Writing

• 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 compose a poem, an honest verse of longing / Or a simple song of hope.

  Conor Oberst

  Song, Rain, Eye

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