Quote

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

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

John Darnielle
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: March 16
Composer
Musician
Singer-Songwriter
Bloomington
Indiana
Listen
Music
Trying
Kind
Like
People

More quotes by John Darnielle

Image
There are real teachers out there I don't pretend to have their mantle.
John Darnielle
Image
When all my friends insisted that they were feeling jaded, it struck me as an affected pose. To me, everything is always new.
John Darnielle
Image
Back in the 90s, if you did mail order in music, you could make a good living doing it if you could hustle.
John Darnielle
Image
Conservative forces in the South have a lot of power - almost dynastic - dating back many years.
John Darnielle
Image
There are stylists I really love. I'm a huge Joan Didion fan - if I wrote something that she might like, then I'd feel very proud. I want the action to move as quickly as it does in A Book of Common Prayer, where one thing bonks right into another very quickly.
John Darnielle
Image
Giving up and doing something else (nursing, for me) was exactly what eventually led me to making music that other people wanted to hear.
John Darnielle
Image
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
Image
You learn to present dark things without including their ability to harm, treasuring them for what they are.
John Darnielle
Image
One way you can get really close to God is to sin as hard as you can.
John Darnielle
Image
You can get into anything if you are determined. I always thought that with music, too.
John Darnielle
Image
The more I learn about stuff the more conscious I become of grave gaps in my knowledge.
John Darnielle
Image
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.
John Darnielle
Image
It's hard always to say what it is one likes about a place, for me. I feel it.
John Darnielle
Image
Life is hard, you're tired, and there's disease. The strategy that works for children is to be delighted by the things that delight you.
John Darnielle
Image
When I was a kid, I was a big science fiction fan, but current horror books were harder to get your hands on.
John Darnielle
Image
The only people who are afraid of file sharing are the people whose albums are so dull presentation-wise that nobody cares about owning the actual finished product, and the people who have so little connection to their listeners that said listeners have no reason to care whether the artists they like are getting reimbursed for their efforts.
John Darnielle
Image
Literature is a mystical place for me. It's not dry. It's where miracles happen.
John Darnielle
Image
There is something fierce and starved about first ideas.
John Darnielle
Image
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.
John Darnielle
Image
The process of touring is always so weird to me. Once you've made the album, that's over, you move along.
John Darnielle