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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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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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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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The more I learn about stuff the more conscious I become of grave gaps in my knowledge.
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Anything that is within you is a gift. To be able to take possession of that and say, Whatever it is, I am bigger than it, is to learn to cherish even the hard and painful things.
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While writing is a mystical process, it's also work. If you show up to work five days in a row, nobody's going to pat you on the back - everyone does that. Well, do that with your writing. Just show up. Be there for it. When you get an idea, write it down somewhere and then be a steward of that idea.
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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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I'm kind of a hermit. Left to my own devices, I won't submerge myself in anything further afield than the driveway.
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I make up stories that take place in real space with real people. If I could convert this into a technique for experimental novels, I might really be onto something.
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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 South actually has a very strong tradition of activism. The civil rights movement came from down here! It was black activists demanding that their voices be heard. People say these are red states. No they're not!
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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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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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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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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.
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
It's hard to stay positive when there's a lot of evil in the world.
John Darnielle
Do every stupid thing that makes you feel alive.
John Darnielle
I grew up around some people whose parents toured a lot: tough on the marriage, tough on the kids.
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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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