John Darnielle Quotes - Page 5

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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.

  John Darnielle

  Song, People, Glad

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Literature is a mystical place for me. It's not dry. It's where miracles happen.

  John Darnielle

  Miracle, Literature, Dry

  "The Mountain Goats' John Darnielle learns to trust others". Interview with Paul Caine, www.avclub.com. November 16, 2009.

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• I think grief is a huge subject; it's one of the things that everybody is going to confront in one way or another. There's been a lot of books written about how Americans have an odd way of trying to defer grief or minimize the need to grieve. People used to have a lot more ritual grief in their lives. For the most part, we think of it as a strictly temporal process: you grieve for a time and then you're over [it], but it's also a spatial process. It travels across a map.

  John Darnielle

  Book, Grief, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When you know where somebody is, you know the most important thing about them.

  John Darnielle

  Important, Important Things, Knows

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When I became conscious of being a person, when I was very small, I knew that I was from Indiana, but I had never seen Indiana. I was born there, but we moved when I was, like, a year old. I always had a sense of a place that was far away from where I was. I would research it and find out about it and I remember on Christmas morning I used to always call Indiana to find out what the weather was like; to see if it was snowing or not.

  John Darnielle

  Morning, Years, Weather

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Men tend to dominate whatever public discourse they participate in, and another big part of feminism is to let women have their say. Men's voices can be welcome at the table, but there is a time and a place, and maybe it's now, for men to make a little less noise, make their needs less known, and listen to the needs of others.

  John Darnielle

  Men, Feminism, Welcome

  "What’s Got John Darnielle’s Goat?". Interview With Emma Silvers, www.motherjones.com. March 25, 2011.

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• In wrestling, people just throw each other around, possibly actually bleed, and are still friends in the locker room afterwards. But there's a real glee - a feeling goes up in the arena, especially on non-TV days. If it's just people in a room and somebody starts to bleed, that's very exciting.

  John Darnielle

  Real, Wrestling, People

  Source: pitchfork.com

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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.

  John Darnielle

  Pain, Safe Environment, People

  Source: pitchfork.com

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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.

  John Darnielle

  Real, Villain, Booing

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• You always feel like your 18-year-old self in some sense. And that's what walking through New York on a June evening feels like - you feel like it's Friday and you're 17 years old.

  John Darnielle

  Friday, New York, June

  "The Mountain Goats". Interview with Larry Fitzmaurice, pitchfork.com. October 1, 2012.

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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

  Real, People, Kind

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• People involved in my personal life make fun of me a lot for not being jaded.

  John Darnielle

  Fun, People, Jaded

  "The Mountain Goats". Interview with Larry Fitzmaurice, pitchfork.com. October 1, 2012.

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• I still get really excited looking at stuff that I've seen every day for 20 years.

  John Darnielle

  Years, Stuff, Excited

  "The Mountain Goats". Interview with Larry Fitzmaurice, pitchfork.com. October 1, 2012.

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• I get nostalgic about having lived in Ames, Iowa, even though being a vegetarian in Iowa is not fun.

  John Darnielle

  Fun, Iowa, Vegetarian

  "The Mountain Goats". Interview with Larry Fitzmaurice, pitchfork.com. October 1, 2012.

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• You can get into anything if you are determined. I always thought that with music, too.

  John Darnielle

  Determined, Ifs

  "The Mountain Goats". Interview with Larry Fitzmaurice, pitchfork.com. October 1, 2012.

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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.

  John Darnielle

  People, Giving, Waiting

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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

  Writing, School, Hands

  "Lyrical Genius John Darnielle Wrote a Scary New Novel". Interview With Alexander Sammon, www.motherjones.com. February 4, 2017.

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• I do have a romantic interest in outlasting everybody else. There's a sort of sad machismo to singer-songwriters, I think.

  John Darnielle

  Thinking, Singers, Outlasting

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I'll keep making records until I don't have more ideas for records.

  John Darnielle

  Ideas, Records

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I grew up around some people whose parents toured a lot: tough on the marriage, tough on the kids.

  John Darnielle

  Kids, People, Parent

  Source: pitchfork.com

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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.

  John Darnielle

  Goal, Guy, Mountain

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I don't write my own publicity materials, I just read 'em and give 'em the OK.

  John Darnielle

  Writing, Giving, Ems

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• In death metal, a lot of guys are Eddie Van Halen disciples, but they take his style to really expressionistic places. It's a real pleasure for me to hear people pushing their craft.

  John Darnielle

  Real, People, Guy

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I know it's a cliché to say I write for myself, but I write for myself.

  John Darnielle

  Writing, Knows

  "What’s Got John Darnielle’s Goat?". Interview with Emma Silvers, www.motherjones.com. March 25, 2011.

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• I crave music that'll sort of hurtle me into space and release me up there.

  John Darnielle

  Space, Release, Crave

  Source: pitchfork.com

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