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I suspect by the time the Beatles were writing the White Album, they didn't go, 'I Wanna Hold Your Hand!' I wanna play that! It's like if somebody asked you to put on the clothes you wore in high school. Well, no. No!
John Darnielle
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John Darnielle
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: March 16
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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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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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The possibility of disaster remains horrific to me. Like when you know everything's about to go wrong in a way that's not controllable or knowable.
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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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It's impossible to be content all the time - you have to learn to be content in places where you're unhappy and owning your emotions, whatever they are.
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Not everybody relates to pain, but if you can watch other people playacting it, you can absorb some of that vibe. It's like watching horror movies - you want to have the experience, but in a safe environment.
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Do every stupid thing that makes you feel alive.
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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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It usually happens that I have multiple different projects going on at once, and one can be referencing the other.
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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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There's this idea that there was a point in our childhood when we were in some way better than we are now and we should try to hang on to that.
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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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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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It's hard to stay positive when there's a lot of evil in the world.
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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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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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