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My work is more important than I am. I'm just some guy.
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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When all my friends insisted that they were feeling jaded, it struck me as an affected pose. To me, everything is always new.
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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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I just started writing stuff to kill time on summer evenings. This is why I'm always telling people who ask me what they need to do to succeed to give up, do something else.
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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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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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Conservative forces in the South have a lot of power - almost dynastic - dating back many years.
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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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Literature is a mystical place for me. It's not dry. It's where miracles happen.
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Young people like to feel self-righteous, like they're on the right side of things.
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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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People say friends don't destroy one another. What do they know about friends?
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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.
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Gender relations are a sad story of men talking trash about women all over the world.
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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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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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It usually happens that I have multiple different projects going on at once, and one can be referencing the other.
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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.
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People will complain that they don't want to wait around for lightning to strike, but why not? If you invest yourself in chance, the potential for disappointment is pretty low.
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It's hard to stay positive when there's a lot of evil in the world.
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