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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.

John Darnielle

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John Darnielle
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: March 16
Composer
Musician
Singer-Songwriter
Bloomington
Indiana
Stories
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Heart
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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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A novel is a performance you have to plan.
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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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You learn to present dark things without including their ability to harm, treasuring them for what they are.
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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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I start writing, pull whatever images happen to occur to me and make up a story, instead of starting with details that are real and I know of and going from there.
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In death metal, a lot of guys are Eddie Van Halen disciples, but they take his style to really expressionistic places. It's a real pleasure for me to hear people pushing their craft.
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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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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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I don't really have any position to complain about my job. Yeah, every job has its moments like, Ah, you know, it's Wednesday. But I'm blessed. I love my work.
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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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My work is more important than I am. I'm just some guy.
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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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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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Every place on earth has a frequency. It's not good or bad, it's just the way it is, and if you can attune yourself to that frequency, then you can find comfort in that.
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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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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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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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