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I'll keep making records until I don't have more ideas for records.

John Darnielle

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John Darnielle
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: March 16
Composer
Musician
Singer-Songwriter
Bloomington
Indiana
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Records

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It's hard to stay positive when there's a lot of evil in the world.
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From a very young age, I was the kind of kid you can just put anywhere and I'd still find stuff to be stoked about.
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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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Everybody experiences reality in a way that's only true for them.
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I enjoy hearing people who are good at their instruments and who've found a distinctive voice.
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When I was a kid, I was a big science fiction fan, but current horror books were harder to get your hands on.
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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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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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You should avoid seeing too much of yourself anywhere: in the outside world, in others, in the imagined worlds that give you shelter.
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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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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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You learn to present dark things without including their ability to harm, treasuring them for what they are.
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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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Everybody is in various states of needing to transcend something. I believe in mental health care, but when we call people crazy, we exclude them from our circle.
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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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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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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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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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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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