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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
Musician
Singer-Songwriter
Bloomington
Indiana
Experiences
Everybody
True
Reality
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There are stylists I really love. I'm a huge Joan Didion fan - if I wrote something that she might like, then I'd feel very proud. I want the action to move as quickly as it does in A Book of Common Prayer, where one thing bonks right into another very quickly.
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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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One way you can get really close to God is to sin as hard as you can.
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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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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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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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May we all emerge from winter with our strength renewed and any unwanted pieces left under the ice.
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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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It's hard to stay positive when there's a lot of evil in the world.
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Conservative forces in the South have a lot of power - almost dynastic - dating back many years.
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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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People say friends don't destroy one another. What do they know about friends?
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From a very young age, I was the kind of kid you can just put anywhere and I'd still find stuff to be stoked about.
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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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There's this idea that there was a point in our childhood when we were in some way better than we are now and we should try to hang on to that.
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