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A novel is a performance you have to plan.

John Darnielle

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John Darnielle
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: March 16
Composer
Musician
Singer-Songwriter
Bloomington
Indiana
Performance
Performances
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Plans
Novel

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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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I usually kind of can't wait until my records leak. Back in the day, you could give people tapes, but you can't do that anymore, because it would be available to everyone on the planet within an hour.
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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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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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I grew up around some people whose parents toured a lot: tough on the marriage, tough on the kids.
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The reality of having a kid involves day-to-day practicality - not broader philosophical outlooks.
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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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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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Over the past 40 years, the tradition of Southern progressivism has been somewhat successfully erased by right-wing revisionist historians.
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There are real teachers out there I don't pretend to have their mantle.
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You can get into anything if you are determined. I always thought that with music, too.
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I'll keep making records until I don't have more ideas for records.
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I'm so disconnected from an indie-rock community that I am the hermit people used to guess I was.
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The only people who are afraid of file sharing are the people whose albums are so dull presentation-wise that nobody cares about owning the actual finished product, and the people who have so little connection to their listeners that said listeners have no reason to care whether the artists they like are getting reimbursed for their efforts.
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There is something fierce and starved about first ideas.
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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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May we all emerge from winter with our strength renewed and any unwanted pieces left under the ice.
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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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I seem to get the best work when I'm angry and depressed and alienated.
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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.
John Darnielle