A Quote by Conor Oberst
Popular music is all about traveling at the speed of you and elevating the individual as the highest thing in the world.
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Somewhere someone is traveling furiously toward you, At incredible speed, traveling day and night, Through blizzards and desert heat, across torrents, through narrow passes. But will he know where to find you, Recognize you when he sees you, Give you the thing he has for you?
Somewhere someone is traveling furiously toward you, At incredible speed, traveling day and night.
God is each truly and exalted thing, therefore the individual himself to the highest degree. But are not nature and the world individuals?
The fact that file sharing goes on, and is as popular as it is, is an incredibly positive thing for the music industry. The fact is that music is so popular that people are willing to break the law to get it.
The hardest climb for me was Kangchenjunga, at 28,169 feet the world's third-highest mountain. The first thing that made this summit difficult was the speed that I climbed and summited two 8,000-er's, back-to-back.
Popular culture as a whole is popular, but in today's fragmented market it's a jostle of competing unpopular popular cultures. As the critic Stanley Crouch likes to say, if you make a movie and 10 million people go see it, you'll gross $100 million - and 96 per cent of the population won't have to be involved. That alone should caution anyone about reading too much into individual examples of popular culture.
I think there's something about traveling in airplanes all the time that's not the healthiest thing in the world for you.
I'm trying to fuse popular and commercial music and just make very creative music. It's popular music: it's everything for everybody.
The imminent demise of the large record companies as gatekeepers of the world's popular music is a good thing, for the most part.
You can only elevate individual performance by elevating that of the entire system.
My life is about politics, a lot of about music, and a lot about things other than acting. I like traveling the world. But, what makes me want to stay in this business and keep doing this are movies when it's a true labor of love.
Music was the one thing I could control. It was the one world that offered me freedom. When I played music, my nightmares ended. My family problems disappeared. I didnt have to search for answers. The answers lay no further than the bell of my trumpet and my scrawled, pencilled scores. Music made me full, strong, popular, self-reliant and cool.
I feel a vocabulary in my music that is coming from popular music. Popular music is like the mother of all languages.
Any discrimination, like sharp turns in a road, becomes critical because of the tremendous speed at which we are traveling into the high-tech world of a service economy.
If your job is to leaven ordinary lives with elevating spectacle, be elevating or be gone.
I never thought I'd be traveling the world supporting my music. Everybody seems to really enjoy the music because it comes from me, and I'm proud of it.
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