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Do every stupid thing that makes you feel alive.
John Darnielle
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John Darnielle
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: March 16
Composer
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Singer-Songwriter
Bloomington
Indiana
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I'll keep making records until I don't have more ideas for records.
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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.
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I don't celebrate milestones and I don't do anniversary editions. It's not my style to reflect on accomplishments.
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Take dance music: I like enough of it and its history to be able to say a word or two about this or that record, but I'm nobody's authority.
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The moment where you know the thing you want is ridiculous and pompous and a terrible thing to want anyway. The direction in which you're headed is not the direction you want to go, yet you're going to head that way a while longer cause that's just the kind of person you are.
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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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Young people like to feel self-righteous, like they're on the right side of things.
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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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People say friends don't destroy one another. What do they know about friends?
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