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Everybody experiences reality in a way that's only true for them.
John Darnielle
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John Darnielle
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: March 16
Composer
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Bloomington
Indiana
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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 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'll keep making records until I don't have more ideas for records.
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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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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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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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I get nostalgic about having lived in Ames, Iowa, even though being a vegetarian in Iowa is not fun.
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Literature is a mystical place for me. It's not dry. It's where miracles happen.
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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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