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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.

John Darnielle

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John Darnielle
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: March 16
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There are stylists I really love. I'm a huge Joan Didion fan - if I wrote something that she might like, then I'd feel very proud. I want the action to move as quickly as it does in A Book of Common Prayer, where one thing bonks right into another very quickly.
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Not everybody relates to pain, but if you can watch other people playacting it, you can absorb some of that vibe. It's like watching horror movies - you want to have the experience, but in a safe environment.
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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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I don't like to say, Oh, I don't like this kind of music. I like to listen to it and try to see what people who like it get out of it.
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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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Gender relations are a sad story of men talking trash about women all over the world.
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Giving up and doing something else (nursing, for me) was exactly what eventually led me to making music that other people wanted to hear.
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There is something fierce and starved about first ideas.
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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 get nostalgic about having lived in Ames, Iowa, even though being a vegetarian in Iowa is not fun.
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Back in the 90s, if you did mail order in music, you could make a good living doing it if you could hustle.
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People say friends don't destroy one another. What do they know about friends?
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In death metal, a lot of guys are Eddie Van Halen disciples, but they take his style to really expressionistic places. It's a real pleasure for me to hear people pushing their craft.
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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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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.
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I start writing, pull whatever images happen to occur to me and make up a story, instead of starting with details that are real and I know of and going from there.
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It's hard always to say what it is one likes about a place, for me. I feel it.
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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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I grew up around some people whose parents toured a lot: tough on the marriage, tough on the kids.
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It's impossible to be content all the time - you have to learn to be content in places where you're unhappy and owning your emotions, whatever they are.
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