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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
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Listened
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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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You can get into anything if you are determined. I always thought that with music, too.
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You learn to present dark things without including their ability to harm, treasuring them for what they are.
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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.
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I don't celebrate milestones and I don't do anniversary editions. It's not my style to reflect on accomplishments.
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My work is more important than I am. I'm just some guy.
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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.
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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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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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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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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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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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May we all emerge from winter with our strength renewed and any unwanted pieces left under the ice.
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People talk about songwriting or comedy as creative expression, but life is creative expression. Table-making, even nursing, is extraordinarily creative.
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There is something fierce and starved about first ideas.
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One way you can get really close to God is to sin as hard as you can.
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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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You always feel like your 18-year-old self in some sense. And that's what walking through New York on a June evening feels like - you feel like it's Friday and you're 17 years old.
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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.
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When all my friends insisted that they were feeling jaded, it struck me as an affected pose. To me, everything is always new.
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