Conor Oberst Quotes

People don't make changes because things are wonderful.

There is resistance to change. There's a resistance to ideas.

When new things come along, some people always want the newest of the new - 'This is what I've been waiting for!' - and some people don't want or need the change - 'I like my old one.'

I think people don't really like change.

There is an enormous inertia that prevents people from change. You must always remember that it is impossible to make something better if you don't make it different - the converse is not true, of course. You cannot make something better unless it is different. And different scares the life out of so many people.

People like the idea of innovation in the abstract, but when you present them with any specific innovation, they tend to reject it because it doesn't fit with what they already know.

The reality is, some people don't want you to change or go anywhere different.

Music has to keep moving. But I was lucky. For me there was always something around the corner.

Any change in form produces a fear of change, and that has accelerated. Marketing is the death of invention, because marketing deals with the familiar.

Everything that an artist does is a risk. Some people want you to stay the same. If you want to evolve, they want to keep you in a certain place.

Slowness to change usually means fear of the new.

One reason we resist making deliberate choices is that choice equals change and most of us, feeling the world is unpredictable enough, try to minimise the trauma of change in our personal lives.

I don't live in the past or focus on making new songs sound like my old stuff; it would be stupid, and I don't think anyone would like it.

When you have a model that's worked very well, it's very hard to change.

By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.

Tradition" is very often an excuse word for people who don't want to change.

New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common

People don't want to experience change; they just want to wake up, and it's different.

I don't like change that much.

It's something I've recognized in the careers of those people who have been inspiring to me over the years - Neil Young, Kate Bush, David Bowie, Frank Zappa, and Prince. These are all people who constantly redefined themselves, and had to deal with the difficulty of trying to take their audience with them when they did that.

If I do something I think is new, it will be misunderstood, but if people like it, I will be disappointed because I haven't pushed them enough. The more people hate it, maybe the newer it is. Because the fundamental human problem is that people are afraid of change.

As an artist, you tend to gravitate to the opposite. I know, when I finish a song or an album, I'm interested in doing something completely new. It doesn't always happen, but that's the idea. My poor fans - I don't know if they love that or hate that.

Change terrifies people. They like new, but they don't like new with change.

Ironically, in a changing world, playing it safe is one of the riskiest things you can do.

Change, not habit, is what gets most of us down; habit is the stabilizer of human society, change accounts for its progress.