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People say friends don't destroy one another. What do they know about friends?
John Darnielle
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John Darnielle
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: March 16
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Bloomington
Indiana
Destroy
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This is the funny thing about me. People think John just comes up with all the ideas. I'm honored. People think I have a big old brain, but actually I am the sum of the people I work with.
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You always feel like your 18-year-old self in some sense. And that's what walking through New York on a June evening feels like - you feel like it's Friday and you're 17 years old.
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I'll keep making records until I don't have more ideas for records.
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It's good to be young, but let's not kid ourselves/ It's better to pass on through those years and come out the other side/ With our hearts still beating/ Having stared down demons/ Come back breathing.
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I enjoy hearing people who are good at their instruments and who've found a distinctive voice.
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For me, moving is always a big opportunity. Its just a enough of a shift in outlook that every time I move, it seems to open something up.
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I suspect by the time the Beatles were writing the White Album, they didn't go, 'I Wanna Hold Your Hand!' I wanna play that! It's like if somebody asked you to put on the clothes you wore in high school. Well, no. No!
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A novel is a performance you have to plan.
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Human beings are selfish by nature. Everything that happens to a child, you immediately grab your own child and say, I will never let that happen to you.
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Giving up and doing something else (nursing, for me) was exactly what eventually led me to making music that other people wanted to hear.
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You learn to present dark things without including their ability to harm, treasuring them for what they are.
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In death metal, a lot of guys are Eddie Van Halen disciples, but they take his style to really expressionistic places. It's a real pleasure for me to hear people pushing their craft.
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I get nostalgic about having lived in Ames, Iowa, even though being a vegetarian in Iowa is not fun.
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Not everybody relates to pain, but if you can watch other people playacting it, you can absorb some of that vibe. It's like watching horror movies - you want to have the experience, but in a safe environment.
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While writing is a mystical process, it's also work. If you show up to work five days in a row, nobody's going to pat you on the back - everyone does that. Well, do that with your writing. Just show up. Be there for it. When you get an idea, write it down somewhere and then be a steward of that idea.
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My work is more important than I am. I'm just some guy.
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Kayfabe is kind of a code. To break kayfabe is to let people know that the punch was not real and that the match was scripted.
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I'm so disconnected from an indie-rock community that I am the hermit people used to guess I was.
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The reality of having a kid involves day-to-day practicality - not broader philosophical outlooks.
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I always worry that I'm a dilettante: I know something about lots of things but don't have exhaustive knowledge of much.
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