Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
The process of touring is always so weird to me. Once you've made the album, that's over, you move along.
John Darnielle
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
John Darnielle
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: March 16
Composer
Musician
Singer-Songwriter
Bloomington
Indiana
Process
Made
Touring
Always
Album
Albums
Weird
Along
Move
Moving
More quotes by John Darnielle
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
I grew up around some people whose parents toured a lot: tough on the marriage, tough on the kids.
John Darnielle
Adulthood is interesting to adults. But I would never want to write about stuff I dont feel everybody can connect to.
John Darnielle
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
Kayfabe is kind of a code. To break kayfabe is to let people know that the punch was not real and that the match was scripted.
John Darnielle
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.
John Darnielle
Human beings are selfish by nature. Everything that happens to a child, you immediately grab your own child and say, I will never let that happen to you.
John Darnielle
The reality of having a kid involves day-to-day practicality - not broader philosophical outlooks.
John Darnielle
Everybody is in various states of needing to transcend something. I believe in mental health care, but when we call people crazy, we exclude them from our circle.
John Darnielle
There are real teachers out there I don't pretend to have their mantle.
John Darnielle
It's an important moment as a reader, I think, when you can forget the question of whether you need to know what happened. Some people really want hard explanations. I'm the other way. I like mysteries. I don't want to frustrate people. I don't want people to feel like they got no answers, but I want to approach the mystery and sit with it.
John Darnielle
I'm kind of a hermit. Left to my own devices, I won't submerge myself in anything further afield than the driveway.
John Darnielle
You learn to present dark things without including their ability to harm, treasuring them for what they are.
John Darnielle
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.
John Darnielle
I enjoy hearing people who are good at their instruments and who've found a distinctive voice.
John Darnielle
Do every stupid thing that makes you feel alive.
John Darnielle
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.
John Darnielle
I start writing, pull whatever images happen to occur to me and make up a story, instead of starting with details that are real and I know of and going from there.
John Darnielle
Everybody experiences reality in a way that's only true for them.
John Darnielle
Literature is a mystical place for me. It's not dry. It's where miracles happen.
John Darnielle
