Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
It's good to be young, but let's not kid ourselves/ It's better to pass on through those years and come out the other side/ With our hearts still beating/ Having stared down demons/ Come back breathing.
John Darnielle
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
John Darnielle
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: March 16
Composer
Musician
Singer-Songwriter
Bloomington
Indiana
Years
Kids
Demons
Good
Stills
Beating
Young
Demon
Still
Breathing
Back
Pass
Better
Hearts
Come
Side
Heart
Sides
Stared
More quotes by John Darnielle
If you're standing in the middle of a ring and you're playing the villain, and everyone is booing and throwing things at you, that's real.
John Darnielle
I seem to get the best work when I'm angry and depressed and alienated.
John Darnielle
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!
John Darnielle
May we all emerge from winter with our strength renewed and any unwanted pieces left under the ice.
John Darnielle
The process of touring is always so weird to me. Once you've made the album, that's over, you move along.
John Darnielle
Back in the 90s, if you did mail order in music, you could make a good living doing it if you could hustle.
John Darnielle
I'll keep making records until I don't have more ideas for records.
John Darnielle
It's an important moment as a reader, I think, when you can forget the question of whether you need to know what happened. Some people really want hard explanations. I'm the other way. I like mysteries. I don't want to frustrate people. I don't want people to feel like they got no answers, but I want to approach the mystery and sit with it.
John Darnielle
People talk about songwriting or comedy as creative expression, but life is creative expression. Table-making, even nursing, is extraordinarily creative.
John Darnielle
Over the past 40 years, the tradition of Southern progressivism has been somewhat successfully erased by right-wing revisionist historians.
John Darnielle
A novel is a performance you have to plan.
John Darnielle
Anything that is within you is a gift. To be able to take possession of that and say, Whatever it is, I am bigger than it, is to learn to cherish even the hard and painful things.
John Darnielle
There is something fierce and starved about first ideas.
John Darnielle
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.
John Darnielle
One way you can get really close to God is to sin as hard as you can.
John Darnielle
Books are like rocks. You hold one in your hand and look at it in various lights to get a sense of it, and then when you get a good angle, you throw it through a window to see what happens.
John Darnielle
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.
John Darnielle
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.
John Darnielle
You can get into anything if you are determined. I always thought that with music, too.
John Darnielle
My work is more important than I am. I'm just some guy.
John Darnielle
