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One way you can get really close to God is to sin as hard as you can.

John Darnielle

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John Darnielle
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: March 16
Composer
Musician
Singer-Songwriter
Bloomington
Indiana
Sin
Close
Hard
Really
Way

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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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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 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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I grew up around some people whose parents toured a lot: tough on the marriage, tough on the kids.
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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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There are real teachers out there I don't pretend to have their mantle.
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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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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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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'm so disconnected from an indie-rock community that I am the hermit people used to guess I was.
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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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I seem to get the best work when I'm angry and depressed and alienated.
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It's hard to stay positive when there's a lot of evil in the world.
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My work is more important than I am. I'm just some guy.
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Young people like to feel self-righteous, like they're on the right side of things.
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