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Conservative forces in the South have a lot of power - almost dynastic - dating back many years.
John Darnielle
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John Darnielle
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: March 16
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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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People talk about songwriting or comedy as creative expression, but life is creative expression. Table-making, even nursing, is extraordinarily creative.
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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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I consider myself a lyricist first and foremost, but if you get something else out of what I do, that's fine too. I'm not sitting back here telling people how they have to take my stuff. We just want to play music, and hope that people like it.
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It's hard always to say what it is one likes about a place, for me. I feel it.
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It's hard to stay positive when there's a lot of evil in the world.
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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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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 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 usually happens that I have multiple different projects going on at once, and one can be referencing the other.
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I don't like to say, Oh, I don't like this kind of music. I like to listen to it and try to see what people who like it get out of it.
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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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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.
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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 seem to get the best work when I'm angry and depressed and alienated.
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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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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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There is something fierce and starved about first ideas.
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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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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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