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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.
John Darnielle
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John Darnielle
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: March 16
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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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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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I'll keep making records until I don't have more ideas for records.
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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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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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Young people like to feel self-righteous, like they're on the right side of things.
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Literature is a mystical place for me. It's not dry. It's where miracles happen.
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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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You learn to present dark things without including their ability to harm, treasuring them for what they are.
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My son, who sees me almost every day of his life, will look at me and go, I know that dude! I like that dude! It's incredibly affirming.
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My work is more important than I am. I'm just some guy.
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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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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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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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The more I learn about stuff the more conscious I become of grave gaps in my knowledge.
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I think it's a misconception that metal's about anger, obviously.
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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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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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You always feel like your 18-year-old self in some sense. And that's what walking through New York on a June evening feels like - you feel like it's Friday and you're 17 years old.
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Everybody experiences reality in a way that's only true for them.
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