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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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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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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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The South actually has a very strong tradition of activism. The civil rights movement came from down here! It was black activists demanding that their voices be heard. People say these are red states. No they're not!
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Everybody experiences reality in a way that's only true for them.
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My work is more important than I am. I'm just some guy.
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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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Everybody is in various states of needing to transcend something. I believe in mental health care, but when we call people crazy, we exclude them from our circle.
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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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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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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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I couldn't name more than a couple of good drum'n'bass acts, and I have no idea what's big in the dance world right now.
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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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From a very young age, I was the kind of kid you can just put anywhere and I'd still find stuff to be stoked about.
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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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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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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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The more I learn about stuff the more conscious I become of grave gaps in my knowledge.
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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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Do every stupid thing that makes you feel alive.
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It usually happens that I have multiple different projects going on at once, and one can be referencing the other.
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