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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
Novel
Performance
Performances
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Plans

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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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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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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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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'll keep making records until I don't have more ideas for records.
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I just started writing stuff to kill time on summer evenings. This is why I'm always telling people who ask me what they need to do to succeed to give up, do something else.
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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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I seem to get the best work when I'm angry and depressed and alienated.
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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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Young people like to feel self-righteous, like they're on the right side of things.
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You can get into anything if you are determined. I always thought that with music, too.
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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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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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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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The more I learn about stuff the more conscious I become of grave gaps in my knowledge.
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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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I'm not really a goal-oriented guy. I started doing the Mountain Goats just for the sheer hell of it.
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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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