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I think it's a misconception that metal's about anger, obviously.
John Darnielle
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John Darnielle
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: March 16
Composer
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Bloomington
Indiana
Metals
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I don't really have any position to complain about my job. Yeah, every job has its moments like, Ah, you know, it's Wednesday. But I'm blessed. I love my work.
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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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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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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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Gender relations are a sad story of men talking trash about women all over the world.
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There is something fierce and starved about first ideas.
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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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I make up stories that take place in real space with real people. If I could convert this into a technique for experimental novels, I might really be onto something.
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You can get into anything if you are determined. I always thought that with music, too.
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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.
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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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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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It's hard always to say what it is one likes about a place, for me. I feel it.
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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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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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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 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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Over the past 40 years, the tradition of Southern progressivism has been somewhat successfully erased by right-wing revisionist historians.
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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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Adulthood is interesting to adults. But I would never want to write about stuff I dont feel everybody can connect to.
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