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Take dance music: I like enough of it and its history to be able to say a word or two about this or that record, but I'm nobody's authority.
John Darnielle
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John Darnielle
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: March 16
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Bloomington
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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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In wrestling, people just throw each other around, possibly actually bleed, and are still friends in the locker room afterwards. But there's a real glee - a feeling goes up in the arena, especially on non-TV days. If it's just people in a room and somebody starts to bleed, that's very exciting.
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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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The fact that somebody's telling you a story about people who didn't exist doesn't make the experience of the story any less real in your heart and mind.
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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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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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There is something fierce and starved about first ideas.
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I enjoy hearing people who are good at their instruments and who've found a distinctive voice.
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I think I read too much Arthur Conan Doyle when I was young, and got this idea that a gentleman should know a lot about one thing and plenty about most everything else.
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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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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.
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My work is more important than I am. I'm just some guy.
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The reality of having a kid involves day-to-day practicality - not broader philosophical outlooks.
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You always feel like your 18-year-old self in some sense. And that's what walking through New York on a June evening feels like - you feel like it's Friday and you're 17 years old.
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People say friends don't destroy one another. What do they know about friends?
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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'm not really a goal-oriented guy. I started doing the Mountain Goats just for the sheer hell of it.
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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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