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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
Broader
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Involves
Philosophical
Reality
Kids
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Anything that is within you is a gift. To be able to take possession of that and say, Whatever it is, I am bigger than it, is to learn to cherish even the hard and painful things.
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Over the past 40 years, the tradition of Southern progressivism has been somewhat successfully erased by right-wing revisionist historians.
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I start writing, pull whatever images happen to occur to me and make up a story, instead of starting with details that are real and I know of and going from there.
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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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Adulthood is interesting to adults. But I would never want to write about stuff I dont feel everybody can connect to.
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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 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 enjoy hearing people who are good at their instruments and who've found a distinctive voice.
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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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When all my friends insisted that they were feeling jaded, it struck me as an affected pose. To me, everything is always new.
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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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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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It's hard always to say what it is one likes about a place, for me. I feel it.
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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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When I was a kid, I was a big science fiction fan, but current horror books were harder to get your hands on.
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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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Literature is a mystical place for me. It's not dry. It's where miracles happen.
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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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It usually happens that I have multiple different projects going on at once, and one can be referencing the other.
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There is something fierce and starved about first ideas.
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