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My son, who sees me almost every day of his life, will look at me and go, I know that dude! I like that dude! It's incredibly affirming.
John Darnielle
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John Darnielle
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: March 16
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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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The South actually has a very strong tradition of activism. The civil rights movement came from down here! It was black activists demanding that their voices be heard. People say these are red states. No they're not!
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A novel is a performance you have to plan.
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My work is more important than I am. I'm just some guy.
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The reality of having a kid involves day-to-day practicality - not broader philosophical outlooks.
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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 was 14 or 15 when I discovered poetry, and I pretty much stopped writing prose until Master of Reality.
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Everybody experiences reality in a way that's only true for them.
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People will complain that they don't want to wait around for lightning to strike, but why not? If you invest yourself in chance, the potential for disappointment is pretty low.
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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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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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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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Literature is a mystical place for me. It's not dry. It's where miracles happen.
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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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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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It's hard to stay positive when there's a lot of evil in the world.
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Not everybody relates to pain, but if you can watch other people playacting it, you can absorb some of that vibe. It's like watching horror movies - you want to have the experience, but in a safe environment.
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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 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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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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