Conor Oberst Quotes

This is just the way it goes: there's always a cycle with music - it goes up and it goes down, it goes risque and it goes back, it goes loud then it goes soft, then it goes rock and it goes pop.

At one time they've been the most important thing to me. So I can't hear our records on the radio, I can't stand it, because they sound so out of what everyone else is doing.

So many young kids are fickle when it comes to music. There comes a time when you're not cool again.

In music, trends are always rising and fading in popularity, but nostalgia never dies.

I don't want people buying my records for this summer's hit. I want people buying them because they're interested in what Ministry will have to say in the future.

It really is, to see that this kind of music is still so popular.

My musical tastes change every week.

I don't know if One Direction will stand the test of time. I have a niece who goes crazy for them. But the only way to judge art is to wait and see if it becomes evergreen. This takes a bit of time. Adele is a very good musician and I'd like to sing with her. But, again, time will tell if her music will become evergreen.

I was listening to the first record the other day, and it sounds remarkably contemporary.

That's why 60,000 people go ape when the Stones play 'Satisfaction.' The songs are part of their legacy, and you fall back in love with them over the years.

Rap records don't make you feel good no more. Six months after release, it can't come back as a classic.

I always take care to have interesting chord progressions, because you can have the best sound design in the club, and you'll kill it in the club, but in five years, kids will have better sound design. But if your music is good, you'll always be able to listen to it, even in 20 or 50 years.

People's musical tastes are fickle, and music can be a fashion.

People like Arvo Part would not have been taken seriously 20 years ago.

Now that the 90's are over and more time has gone by, the 80's sound fresh again.

Pop music is a fashion, and fashions come and go. The public retires you as their tastes change.

Rock became an incredible commercial success, people just became bored with serious music, and it was forgotten.

It seems like bands have stopped making timeless, great rock albums like they did back in the day.

In the '90s, guitar solos were dead.

When music is crashing around us, when you hear the same five songs on the radio that aren't really saying much, we can always go back to great music. Great music always lives on.

I don't think we will use the 80s glossy sound again.

All old music was modern once, and much more of the music of yesterday already sounds more old-fashioned than works which were written three centuries ago.

I remember Mitch Miller saying every week, This rock and roll stuff will never last. But one doesn't like to bring that up to Mitch.

If music sounds dated, it means it wasn't very good in the first place.

I remember immediately - immediately - feeling like, 'I don't want to play 'We Are Young' when I'm 35. I don't want to be defined by this.'