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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.

John Darnielle

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John Darnielle
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: March 16
Composer
Musician
Singer-Songwriter
Bloomington
Indiana
Places
Emotion
Impossible
Whatever
Learn
Owning
Time
Content
Unhappy
Emotions

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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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For me, moving is always a big opportunity. Its just a enough of a shift in outlook that every time I move, it seems to open something up.
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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 think The Sunset Tree is really the album on which I really learned to trust other musicians, which is so important.
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A novel is a performance you have to plan.
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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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I don't really have any position to complain about my job. Yeah, every job has its moments like, Ah, you know, it's Wednesday. But I'm blessed. I love my work.
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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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You learn to present dark things without including their ability to harm, treasuring them for what they are.
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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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I don't celebrate milestones and I don't do anniversary editions. It's not my style to reflect on accomplishments.
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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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It's good to be young, but let's not kid ourselves/ It's better to pass on through those years and come out the other side/ With our hearts still beating/ Having stared down demons/ Come back breathing.
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It's easy to follow national politics and weigh in on social media, but if I'm tweeting stuff about Chatham County, no one cares.
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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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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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The more I learn about stuff the more conscious I become of grave gaps in my knowledge.
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