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I don't like to say, Oh, I don't like this kind of music. I like to listen to it and try to see what people who like it get out of it.

John Darnielle

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John Darnielle
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: March 16
Composer
Musician
Singer-Songwriter
Bloomington
Indiana
People
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There are real teachers out there I don't pretend to have their mantle.
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I make up stories that take place in real space with real people. If I could convert this into a technique for experimental novels, I might really be onto something.
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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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Gender relations are a sad story of men talking trash about women all over the world.
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Young people like to feel self-righteous, like they're on the right side of things.
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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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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 to stay positive when there's a lot of evil in the world.
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Conservative forces in the South have a lot of power - almost dynastic - dating back many years.
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While writing is a mystical process, it's also work. If you show up to work five days in a row, nobody's going to pat you on the back - everyone does that. Well, do that with your writing. Just show up. Be there for it. When you get an idea, write it down somewhere and then be a steward of that idea.
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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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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.
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I get nostalgic about having lived in Ames, Iowa, even though being a vegetarian in Iowa is not fun.
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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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Everybody experiences reality in a way that's only true for them.
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This is the funny thing about me. People think John just comes up with all the ideas. I'm honored. People think I have a big old brain, but actually I am the sum of the people I work with.
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I'm kind of a hermit. Left to my own devices, I won't submerge myself in anything further afield than the driveway.
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