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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
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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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If you're standing in the middle of a ring and you're playing the villain, and everyone is booing and throwing things at you, that's real.
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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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I grew up around some people whose parents toured a lot: tough on the marriage, tough on the kids.
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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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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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The reality of having a kid involves day-to-day practicality - not broader philosophical outlooks.
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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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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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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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I enjoy hearing people who are good at their instruments and who've found a distinctive voice.
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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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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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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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I'm not really a goal-oriented guy. I started doing the Mountain Goats just for the sheer hell of it.
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This is why people cry at the movies: because everybody’s doomed. No one in a movie can help themselves in any way. Their fate has already staked its claim on them from the moment they appear onscreen.
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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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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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There is something fierce and starved about first ideas.
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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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