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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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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 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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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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Life is hard, you're tired, and there's disease. The strategy that works for children is to be delighted by the things that delight you.
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It makes me envious of anybody who can say truly that they don't care what anybody thinks of what they do, because I care a lot about the people who like my stuff.
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A novel is a performance you have to plan.
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Everybody experiences reality in a way that's only true for them.
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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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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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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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Literature is a mystical place for me. It's not dry. It's where miracles happen.
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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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My work is more important than I am. I'm just some guy.
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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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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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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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Young people like to feel self-righteous, like they're on the right side of things.
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The reality of having a kid involves day-to-day practicality - not broader philosophical outlooks.
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People talk about songwriting or comedy as creative expression, but life is creative expression. Table-making, even nursing, is extraordinarily creative.
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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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