Conor Oberst Quotes
We must memorize nine numbers and deny we have a soul.
Bright Eyes. "A Scale, a Mirror and Those Indifferent Clocks." Fevers and Mirrors, Saddle Creek, 2000.
The best example of this is the role that distant history has in the current Balkans and Arab countries where terrible current judgment about society or foreign affairs is totally driven by an exquisitely detailed memory of a particular version of distant history.
Conor Mullen Oberst is an American singer-songwriter best known for his work in Bright Eyes. He has also played in several other bands, including Desaparecidos, The Faint (previously named Norman Bailer), Commander Venus, Park Ave., Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band, Monsters of Folk, and Better Oblivion Community Center. Oberst was named the Best Songwriter of 2008 by Rolling Stone magazine.