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John Darnielle
John Darnielle
American Musician
Born: Mar 16, 1967
About Me People Think Writing You
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My strongest hope is for a cameo as a band playing in a club visited by the detectives on 'Law & Order: SVU' during the course of an investigation, maybe during sound check, or something, so they can force us to stop playing while they question the sound guy. John Darnielle
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I think I am a religious person just by nature. I think I sort of view everything through the lens of some inner undying thing in people that drives them to act as they do or to feel ashamed of not acting in some other way. John Darnielle
Nature People Think Other Everything Way Religious Some Religious Person Through Drives Feel Sort Am Person Just Ashamed Them Lens Act View Acting Thing Inner
When you're born into a showbiz family, the deck is stacked against you. John Darnielle
Family You Born Stacked Against Deck Showbiz
Your intelligence doesn't override your desire to destroy yourself. John Darnielle
Yourself Intelligence Destroy Override Your Desire
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
You Old Sense Some Through Self Feel Feels New Like Always Years Friday June Walking York New York Old Self Your Evening
More and more, I enjoy hearing people who are good at their instruments and who've found a distinctive voice. 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
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At my high school, there were always kids carrying acoustic guitars around, which is why I named my band the Mountain Goats. I didn't want to seem like one of those guys who brought his guitar to the party whether you asked him to or not. John Darnielle
You Guitar School Party Band Those Kids High Carrying Guitars High School Brought Seem Guys Named Like Him Around Always Were His Goats Mountain Want Whether Which Acoustic Asked Who Why
Most of 'All Hail West Texas' was written during orientation at a new job I had. I had basically worked this job before, I knew this stuff, so I was writing lyrics in the margins of all the Xeroxed material. John Darnielle
Writing Job Before Lyrics Had Written Hail Knew Stuff New Most Material New Job West Texas Worked Orientation Margins Basically
Metal has its own code of cool, but it's not really trying to be cool. And that was very refreshing to me, that metal is very much about expressing something that seems awesome to you even if, at the time, much of the world was going to mock and reject it. John Darnielle
Time Me You World Own Awesome About Seems Something Metal Very Mock Trying Refreshing Going Much Really Cool Even Expressing Code Reject
There's the dual challenge of wanting to speak from an authentic place, and then being able to be honest about it. Even in the most mannered art, I think that's what people value, is a voice that comes from a real place. John Darnielle
Art People Speak Challenge Value To Be Honest Think Able About Voice Most Dual Real Authentic Real Place Being Wanting Place Then Even Honest
Most of my interests in terms of writing are dark, so it's discordant how much I try to lock into the vibe of wherever I'm at. Inhabiting the life of the imagination is the nature of survival strategy - you build yourself little worlds to enjoy. John Darnielle
Life Nature You Survival Yourself Writing Dark Try Build Strategy Enjoy Imagination Worlds Lock Most Terms How How Much Discordant Vibe Wherever Little Much Interests Inhabiting
I get nostalgic about having lived in Ames, Iowa, even though being a vegetarian in Iowa is not fun. But I really love Durham more than any place I've ever been; some small towns can be really provincial and strangling, but Durham is the best city in the world. John Darnielle
Love Best World Though City Some About Having More Small Vegetarian Small Towns Towns Iowa Been Provincial Than Get Any Being Nostalgic Place Really Strangling Fun Even Lived Ever
If I go see a band, and they play, like, zero from any of their old albums, I'm very happy about that. I do not want to see the bands of my youth playing the songs of my youth. I hate that. John Darnielle
Happy Youth Hate Old Band See About Songs Like Go Very Bands Any Want Play Zero Playing Albums
It's not my style to be thinking about what a record is while I'm making it: I just write songs. John Darnielle
Style Thinking Record About Write Songs Making Just While
I think youth will always be connected to the strongest music at the time because... I don't want to use the word 'tribal,' but there was this sort of familial affiliation that people would feel with the music they were listening to. John Darnielle
Music Time Youth People Listening Word Will Tribal Think Would Strongest Feel Sort Because Always Were Affiliation Want Use Connected
My songs tend to sprint toward some epiphany and then explode. John Darnielle
Some Tend Songs Toward Sprint Explode Epiphany Then
A book is a journey: It's a thing you agree to go on with somebody, and I think every reader's experience of a book is going to be different. John Darnielle
Journey You Experience Book Somebody Every Think Be Different Reader Go Going Different Agree Thing
People think of me as a nice person because, I think, I have grown into a nice person. John Darnielle
Me People Nice Think Because Person Nice Person Grown
Younger songwriters will ask me, 'What did you do?' And it's like, 'Well, I worked a day job, and I didn't stake anything. I didn't quit my day job. I didn't have any hopes at all. I just did the thing that I believed in, and I waited a long time.' John Darnielle
Time Day Me You Will Job Long Long Time Hopes Songwriters Day Job Like Well Waited Did Quit Any Just Anything Stake Younger Ask Worked Believed Thing
To me, creative work is labor, like any other kind of labor. It's got value, and it takes your time, and it's useful to people, depending. John Darnielle
Work Time Me Creative People Value Other Kind Takes Like Got Labor Any Depending Your Useful Creative Work
I always worry that I'm a dilettante: I know something about lots of things but don't have exhaustive knowledge of much. John Darnielle
Knowledge Worry Dilettante About Something Know Always Exhaustive Lots Much Things
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. John Darnielle
Too Much Gentleman Young Think Too Else Everything Everything Else Plenty One Thing About Conan Idea Know Most Read Got Lot Arthur Much Should Thing
I got a promo of 'Nichts Muss' in what would have been 2002 or 2003 and fell totally in love with it after listening to it on an airplane that took me to Australia via Taipei and Kuala Lumpur. John Darnielle
Love Me Listening Took Airplane Would Promo Totally Fell Got Been Australia Via After
A band's first album's usually not great. When you made the first album, you had a day job and you were still trying to be serious about it. John Darnielle
Day Great You Job Made First Band About Had Day Job Still Were Trying Serious Album
I watched 'Fame,' and I just love the choreography. It just gives me a place to be in another zone. John Darnielle
Love Me Gives Another Fame Just Place Choreography Watched Zone
I'd played with Jon Wurster as a duo just for a lark. John Darnielle
Jon Duo Just Lark Played
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