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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
Firsts
First
Something
Starved
Fierce
Ideas

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I'll keep making records until I don't have more ideas for records.
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