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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
Graves
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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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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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Literature is a mystical place for me. It's not dry. It's where miracles happen.
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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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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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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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The only people who are afraid of file sharing are the people whose albums are so dull presentation-wise that nobody cares about owning the actual finished product, and the people who have so little connection to their listeners that said listeners have no reason to care whether the artists they like are getting reimbursed for their efforts.
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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 grew up around some people whose parents toured a lot: tough on the marriage, tough on the kids.
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There are real teachers out there I don't pretend to have their mantle.
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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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I was 14 or 15 when I discovered poetry, and I pretty much stopped writing prose until Master of Reality.
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Everybody experiences reality in a way that's only true for them.
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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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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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May we all emerge from winter with our strength renewed and any unwanted pieces left under the ice.
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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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My son, who sees me almost every day of his life, will look at me and go, I know that dude! I like that dude! It's incredibly affirming.
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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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If you're standing in the middle of a ring and you're playing the villain, and everyone is booing and throwing things at you, that's real.
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