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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.

John Darnielle

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John Darnielle
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: March 16
Composer
Musician
Singer-Songwriter
Bloomington
Indiana
Getting
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Something
People
Listened
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Songs

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This is why people cry at the movies: because everybody’s doomed. No one in a movie can help themselves in any way. Their fate has already staked its claim on them from the moment they appear onscreen.
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A novel is a performance you have to plan.
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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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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.
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I'm not really a goal-oriented guy. I started doing the Mountain Goats just for the sheer hell of it.
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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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People will complain that they don't want to wait around for lightning to strike, but why not? If you invest yourself in chance, the potential for disappointment is pretty low.
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Do every stupid thing that makes you feel alive.
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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.
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The process of touring is always so weird to me. Once you've made the album, that's over, you move along.
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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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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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It's hard always to say what it is one likes about a place, for me. I feel it.
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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.
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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.
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