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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
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Singer-Songwriter
Bloomington
Indiana
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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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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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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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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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I always worry that I'm a dilettante: I know something about lots of things but don't have exhaustive knowledge of much.
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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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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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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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I'm sort of a cavedweller: I miss my house, my yard, my kitchen, my wife. The trees. When I get home, I like to get down into my office neighborhood as soon as I can.
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It's hard to stay positive when there's a lot of evil in the world.
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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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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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The reality of having a kid involves day-to-day practicality - not broader philosophical outlooks.
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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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There is something fierce and starved about first ideas.
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Literature is a mystical place for me. It's not dry. It's where miracles happen.
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I was 14 or 15 when I discovered poetry, and I pretty much stopped writing prose until Master of Reality.
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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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I suspect by the time the Beatles were writing the White Album, they didn't go, 'I Wanna Hold Your Hand!' I wanna play that! It's like if somebody asked you to put on the clothes you wore in high school. Well, no. No!
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Do every stupid thing that makes you feel alive.
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