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Young people like to feel self-righteous, like they're on the right side of things.
John Darnielle
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John Darnielle
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: March 16
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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 don't celebrate milestones and I don't do anniversary editions. It's not my style to reflect on accomplishments.
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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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The reality of having a kid involves day-to-day practicality - not broader philosophical outlooks.
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Life is hard, you're tired, and there's disease. The strategy that works for children is to be delighted by the things that delight you.
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Books are like rocks. You hold one in your hand and look at it in various lights to get a sense of it, and then when you get a good angle, you throw it through a window to see what happens.
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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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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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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!
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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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Conservative forces in the South have a lot of power - almost dynastic - dating back many years.
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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 South actually has a very strong tradition of activism. The civil rights movement came from down here! It was black activists demanding that their voices be heard. People say these are red states. No they're not!
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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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