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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
Philosophical
Reality
Kids
Outlooks
Practicality
Broader
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Literature is a mystical place for me. It's not dry. It's where miracles happen.
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Conservative forces in the South have a lot of power - almost dynastic - dating back many years.
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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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Books are like rocks. You hold one in your hand and look at it in various lights to get a sense of it, and then when you get a good angle, you throw it through a window to see what happens.
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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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There is something fierce and starved about first ideas.
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It makes me envious of anybody who can say truly that they don't care what anybody thinks of what they do, because I care a lot about the people who like my stuff.
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The process of touring is always so weird to me. Once you've made the album, that's over, you move along.
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You should avoid seeing too much of yourself anywhere: in the outside world, in others, in the imagined worlds that give you shelter.
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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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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 get nostalgic about having lived in Ames, Iowa, even though being a vegetarian in Iowa is not fun.
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I consider myself a lyricist first and foremost, but if you get something else out of what I do, that's fine too. I'm not sitting back here telling people how they have to take my stuff. We just want to play music, and hope that people like it.
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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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I think it's a misconception that metal's about anger, obviously.
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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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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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May we all emerge from winter with our strength renewed and any unwanted pieces left under the ice.
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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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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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