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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
Making
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Human beings are selfish by nature. Everything that happens to a child, you immediately grab your own child and say, I will never let that happen to you.
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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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The reality of having a kid involves day-to-day practicality - not broader philosophical outlooks.
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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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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 seem to get the best work when I'm angry and depressed and alienated.
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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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In wrestling, people just throw each other around, possibly actually bleed, and are still friends in the locker room afterwards. But there's a real glee - a feeling goes up in the arena, especially on non-TV days. If it's just people in a room and somebody starts to bleed, that's very exciting.
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It usually happens that I have multiple different projects going on at once, and one can be referencing the other.
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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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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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Literature is a mystical place for me. It's not dry. It's where miracles happen.
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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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People will complain that they don't want to wait around for lightning to strike, but why not? If you invest yourself in chance, the potential for disappointment is pretty low.
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The fact that somebody's telling you a story about people who didn't exist doesn't make the experience of the story any less real in your heart and mind.
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I get nostalgic about having lived in Ames, Iowa, even though being a vegetarian in Iowa is not fun.
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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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I'm kind of a hermit. Left to my own devices, I won't submerge myself in anything further afield than the driveway.
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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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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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