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I enjoy hearing people who are good at their instruments and who've found a distinctive voice.
John Darnielle
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John Darnielle
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: March 16
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Indiana
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Gender relations are a sad story of men talking trash about women all over the world.
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Young people like to feel self-righteous, like they're on the right side of things.
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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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I always worry that I'm a dilettante: I know something about lots of things but don't have exhaustive knowledge of much.
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Books are like rocks. You hold one in your hand and look at it in various lights to get a sense of it, and then when you get a good angle, you throw it through a window to see what happens.
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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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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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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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Literature is a mystical place for me. It's not dry. It's where miracles happen.
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The reality of having a kid involves day-to-day practicality - not broader philosophical outlooks.
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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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May we all emerge from winter with our strength renewed and any unwanted pieces left under the ice.
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You can get into anything if you are determined. I always thought that with music, too.
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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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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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