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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.
John Darnielle
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John Darnielle
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: March 16
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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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There are real teachers out there I don't pretend to have their mantle.
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Take dance music: I like enough of it and its history to be able to say a word or two about this or that record, but I'm nobody's authority.
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My work is more important than I am. I'm just some guy.
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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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I enjoy hearing people who are good at their instruments and who've found a distinctive voice.
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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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It's hard always to say what it is one likes about a place, for me. I feel it.
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You learn to present dark things without including their ability to harm, treasuring them for what they are.
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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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It's impossible to be content all the time - you have to learn to be content in places where you're unhappy and owning your emotions, whatever they are.
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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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Gender relations are a sad story of men talking trash about women all over the world.
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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 usually kind of can't wait until my records leak. Back in the day, you could give people tapes, but you can't do that anymore, because it would be available to everyone on the planet within an hour.
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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.
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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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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.
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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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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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