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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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John Darnielle
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: March 16
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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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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'll keep making records until I don't have more ideas for records.
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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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Gender relations are a sad story of men talking trash about women all over the world.
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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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The fact that somebody's telling you a story about people who didn't exist doesn't make the experience of the story any less real in your heart and mind.
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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.
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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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The more I learn about stuff the more conscious I become of grave gaps in my knowledge.
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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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There are real teachers out there I don't pretend to have their mantle.
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I think The Sunset Tree is really the album on which I really learned to trust other musicians, which is so important.
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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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There's this idea that there was a point in our childhood when we were in some way better than we are now and we should try to hang on to that.
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I always worry that I'm a dilettante: I know something about lots of things but don't have exhaustive knowledge of much.
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It makes me envious of anybody who can say truly that they don't care what anybody thinks of what they do, because I care a lot about the people who like my stuff.
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My son, who sees me almost every day of his life, will look at me and go, I know that dude! I like that dude! It's incredibly affirming.
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