"On starting your own Saddle Creek Records:
“It’s best to make music for the sake of making music. I also think it’s good to make music within a community, so if your friends are musicians or songwriters, I would say be supportive of them, and in a way try to marry your fortunes together. I think that’s what we did when we were coming up. All the bands would support each other, and every time a band went on tour to another city, we would talk about where we came from and we’d pass along other records from our friends to all the people we met, so it grew very organically from that. I don’t know, it’s tough though — even for as good of friends as we all are still to this day, doing business with your friends and all the things that come along with even a little bit of success, it really can be a strain on friendships. I would say, be careful.” [Laughs]
-Conor Oberst
2011
“It’s best to make music for the sake of making music. I also think it’s good to make music within a community, so if your friends are musicians or songwriters, I would say be supportive of them, and in a way try to marry your fortunes together. I think that’s what we did when we were coming up. All the bands would support each other, and every time a band went on tour to another city, we would talk about where we came from and we’d pass along other records from our friends to all the people we met, so it grew very organically from that. I don’t know, it’s tough though — even for as good of friends as we all are still to this day, doing business with your friends and all the things that come along with even a little bit of success, it really can be a strain on friendships. I would say, be careful.” [Laughs]
-Conor Oberst
2011
— The Denver Post (via imwideawakeitsmornin)
