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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.
John Darnielle
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John Darnielle
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: March 16
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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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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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The more I learn about stuff the more conscious I become of grave gaps in my knowledge.
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There is something fierce and starved about first ideas.
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People say friends don't destroy one another. What do they know about friends?
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I couldn't name more than a couple of good drum'n'bass acts, and I have no idea what's big in the dance world right now.
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I usually kind of can't wait until my records leak. Back in the day, you could give people tapes, but you can't do that anymore, because it would be available to everyone on the planet within an hour.
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I'll keep making records until I don't have more ideas for records.
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For me, moving is always a big opportunity. Its just a enough of a shift in outlook that every time I move, it seems to open something up.
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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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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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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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It's easy to follow national politics and weigh in on social media, but if I'm tweeting stuff about Chatham County, no one cares.
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Giving up and doing something else (nursing, for me) was exactly what eventually led me to making music that other people wanted to hear.
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The moment where you know the thing you want is ridiculous and pompous and a terrible thing to want anyway. The direction in which you're headed is not the direction you want to go, yet you're going to head that way a while longer cause that's just the kind of person you are.
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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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It's hard to stay positive when there's a lot of evil in the world.
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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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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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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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