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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
Records
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Ideas

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I was 14 or 15 when I discovered poetry, and I pretty much stopped writing prose until Master of Reality.
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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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Young people like to feel self-righteous, like they're on the right side of 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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People talk about songwriting or comedy as creative expression, but life is creative expression. Table-making, even nursing, is extraordinarily creative.
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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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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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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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A novel is a performance you have to plan.
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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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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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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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Kayfabe is kind of a code. To break kayfabe is to let people know that the punch was not real and that the match was scripted.
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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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May we all emerge from winter with our strength renewed and any unwanted pieces left under the ice.
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If my songs are being listened to between any other songs, that is awesome, and I'm glad people are getting something out of them.
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It's hard to stay positive when there's a lot of evil in the world.
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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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Literature is a mystical place for me. It's not dry. It's where miracles happen.
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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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