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The reality of having a kid involves day-to-day practicality - not broader philosophical outlooks.

John Darnielle

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John Darnielle
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: March 16
Composer
Musician
Singer-Songwriter
Bloomington
Indiana
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Philosophical
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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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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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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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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 grew up around some people whose parents toured a lot: tough on the marriage, tough on the kids.
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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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A novel is a performance you have to plan.
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Gender relations are a sad story of men talking trash about women all over the world.
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You can get into anything if you are determined. I always thought that with music, too.
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It's an important moment as a reader, I think, when you can forget the question of whether you need to know what happened. Some people really want hard explanations. I'm the other way. I like mysteries. I don't want to frustrate people. I don't want people to feel like they got no answers, but I want to approach the mystery and sit with it.
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One way you can get really close to God is to sin as hard as you can.
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I think it's a misconception that metal's about anger, obviously.
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May we all emerge from winter with our strength renewed and any unwanted pieces left under the ice.
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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 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.
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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.
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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'm so disconnected from an indie-rock community that I am the hermit people used to guess I was.
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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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Kayfabe is kind of a code. To break kayfabe is to let people know that the punch was not real and that the match was scripted.
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