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For me, moving is always a big opportunity. Its just a enough of a shift in outlook that every time I move, it seems to open something up.

John Darnielle

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John Darnielle
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: March 16
Composer
Musician
Singer-Songwriter
Bloomington
Indiana
Moving
Seems
Enough
Outlook
Every
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Something
Move
Always
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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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Human beings are selfish by nature. Everything that happens to a child, you immediately grab your own child and say, I will never let that happen to you.
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The possibility of disaster remains horrific to me. Like when you know everything's about to go wrong in a way that's not controllable or knowable.
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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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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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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 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.
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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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The reality of having a kid involves day-to-day practicality - not broader philosophical outlooks.
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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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Adulthood is interesting to adults. But I would never want to write about stuff I dont feel everybody can connect to.
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Do every stupid thing that makes you feel alive.
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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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