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There is something fierce and starved about first ideas.

John Darnielle

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John Darnielle
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: March 16
Composer
Musician
Singer-Songwriter
Bloomington
Indiana
Fierce
Ideas
Firsts
First
Something
Starved

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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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May we all emerge from winter with our strength renewed and any unwanted pieces left under the ice.
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Everybody is in various states of needing to transcend something. I believe in mental health care, but when we call people crazy, we exclude them from our circle.
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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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I enjoy hearing people who are good at their instruments and who've found a distinctive voice.
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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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You can get into anything if you are determined. I always thought that with music, too.
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I think I read too much Arthur Conan Doyle when I was young, and got this idea that a gentleman should know a lot about one thing and plenty about most everything else.
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The reality of having a kid involves day-to-day practicality - not broader philosophical outlooks.
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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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I usually kind of can't wait until my records leak. Back in the day, you could give people tapes, but you can't do that anymore, because it would be available to everyone on the planet within an hour.
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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'm not really a goal-oriented guy. I started doing the Mountain Goats just for the sheer hell of it.
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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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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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From a very young age, I was the kind of kid you can just put anywhere and I'd still find stuff to be stoked about.
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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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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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