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Books are like rocks. You hold one in your hand and look at it in various lights to get a sense of it, and then when you get a good angle, you throw it through a window to see what happens.
John Darnielle
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John Darnielle
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: March 16
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The only people who are afraid of file sharing are the people whose albums are so dull presentation-wise that nobody cares about owning the actual finished product, and the people who have so little connection to their listeners that said listeners have no reason to care whether the artists they like are getting reimbursed for their efforts.
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The reality of having a kid involves day-to-day practicality - not broader philosophical outlooks.
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When I was a kid, I was a big science fiction fan, but current horror books were harder to get your hands on.
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It's hard always to say what it is one likes about a place, for me. I feel it.
John Darnielle
Adulthood is interesting to adults. But I would never want to write about stuff I dont feel everybody can connect to.
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You can get into anything if you are determined. I always thought that with music, too.
John Darnielle
I think The Sunset Tree is really the album on which I really learned to trust other musicians, which is so important.
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If my songs are being listened to between any other songs, that is awesome, and I'm glad people are getting something out of them.
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The process of touring is always so weird to me. Once you've made the album, that's over, you move along.
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This is why people cry at the movies: because everybody’s doomed. No one in a movie can help themselves in any way. Their fate has already staked its claim on them from the moment they appear onscreen.
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I couldn't name more than a couple of good drum'n'bass acts, and I have no idea what's big in the dance world right now.
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Gender relations are a sad story of men talking trash about women all over the world.
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A novel is a performance you have to plan.
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In wrestling, people just throw each other around, possibly actually bleed, and are still friends in the locker room afterwards. But there's a real glee - a feeling goes up in the arena, especially on non-TV days. If it's just people in a room and somebody starts to bleed, that's very exciting.
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The more I learn about stuff the more conscious I become of grave gaps in my knowledge.
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I was 14 or 15 when I discovered poetry, and I pretty much stopped writing prose until Master of Reality.
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Life is hard, you're tired, and there's disease. The strategy that works for children is to be delighted by the things that delight you.
John Darnielle
I just started writing stuff to kill time on summer evenings. This is why I'm always telling people who ask me what they need to do to succeed to give up, do something else.
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I consider myself a lyricist first and foremost, but if you get something else out of what I do, that's fine too. I'm not sitting back here telling people how they have to take my stuff. We just want to play music, and hope that people like it.
John Darnielle
The South actually has a very strong tradition of activism. The civil rights movement came from down here! It was black activists demanding that their voices be heard. People say these are red states. No they're not!
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