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The more I learn about stuff the more conscious I become of grave gaps in my knowledge.

John Darnielle

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John Darnielle
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: March 16
Composer
Musician
Singer-Songwriter
Bloomington
Indiana
Conscious
Knowledge
Learn
Stuff
Become
Gaps
Grave
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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 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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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.
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There is something fierce and starved about first ideas.
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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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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 usually happens that I have multiple different projects going on at once, and one can be referencing the other.
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Every place on earth has a frequency. It's not good or bad, it's just the way it is, and if you can attune yourself to that frequency, then you can find comfort in that.
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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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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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The process of touring is always so weird to me. Once you've made the album, that's over, you move along.
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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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Back in the 90s, if you did mail order in music, you could make a good living doing it if you could hustle.
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This is why people cry at the movies: because everybody’s doomed. No one in a movie can help themselves in any way. Their fate has already staked its claim on them from the moment they appear onscreen.
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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.
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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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A novel is a performance you have to plan.
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I was 14 or 15 when I discovered poetry, and I pretty much stopped writing prose until Master of Reality.
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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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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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