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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.
John Darnielle
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John Darnielle
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: March 16
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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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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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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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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 consider myself a lyricist first and foremost, but if you get something else out of what I do, that's fine too. I'm not sitting back here telling people how they have to take my stuff. We just want to play music, and hope that people like it.
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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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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 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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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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Literature is a mystical place for me. It's not dry. It's where miracles happen.
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One way you can get really close to God is to sin as hard as you can.
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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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