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John Darnielle  Quotes
Sean at sixteen thought ‘Rexecutioner’s Dream’ was the greatest thing he’d ever heard, something so strange and different it seemed like a message from another realm. It had cover art, but the art was glued...

—John Darnielle

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ArtMusic
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It’s not my style to be thinking about what a record is while I’m making it: I just write songs.

—John Darnielle

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StyleThinkingWhile
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I pretty much just focus on making the records – unless I’m self-releasing them; then I do my own thing. But at some point, you have to stop worrying about chains of distribution, or it...

—John Darnielle

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PointPretty
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The more established you are, the less likely you are to do something ridiculous, which is one reason I’m proud to put out a wrestling album. If you stop and you go, ‘Well, what if...

—John Darnielle

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HeartReason
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Adulthood is interesting to adults. But I would never want to write about stuff I don’t feel everybody can connect to.

—John Darnielle

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AdultEverybodyStuff
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Songs are often character studies.

—John Darnielle

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CharacterOftenSongs
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I write stuff down. I have a chalkboard in the kitchen where I will scrawl stuff down if I have a faint outline of an idea. And I’ll go into my office or whatever. But...

—John Darnielle

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GoesStuffWhatever
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I think any real one-sheet for an album would say, ‘Well, here’s what I’ve been doing.’ And that would be it.

—John Darnielle

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AlbumHere
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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...

—John Darnielle

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GuitarHighWhether
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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...

—John Darnielle

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Enjoy
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When you punish a person for dreaming his dreamDon’t expect him to thank or forgive you.

—John Darnielle

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Dreams
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My father would tell me if I wasn’t writing in meter verse, it wasn’t poetry.

—John Darnielle

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FatherVerse
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I think all writing is necessarily autobiographical to a greater or lesser extent, and the less it tries to be confessional, the more likely it is that you’re somehow sneaking the things you need to...

—John Darnielle

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GreaterLessLikely
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The way the vocal folds work is that they can get inflamed and in pain, but actual tears in the folds are somewhat rare. I’ve never torn anything. Been too strained plenty of times.

—John Darnielle

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PainTimes
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As an idea occurs to me, I’ll either follow it or not, but I’m more instinctive than master-planner about stuff.

—John Darnielle

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EitherFollowStuff
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The better I get at writing songs, the harder it seems to be to relate to people. But when I get on stage, I’m extremely happy.

—John Darnielle

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I wrote ‘Lakeside View Apartment Suites’ with Roman in my arms. He was about a month old. I was playing left-handed and finally handed him over. On the demo of it, you can hear him...

—John Darnielle

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HearNextPlaying
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I used to assume no one would care, but I do think now I’ve written songs that are useful to people having dark hours.

—John Darnielle

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CareDarkSongs
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For me, fiction isn’t very cathartic. It can be a broad, long catharsis, but it’s a whole different thing – whereas music is physical. Essentially, it goes in through your ear. Fiction is cerebral, necessarily....

—John Darnielle

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EmotionalStuff
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My feminism is what came squarely up against my faith. There’s a lot of ecstatic post-patriarchal Christians who have stuff they do with that. But at that point, you’re doing Christianity with a double-superscript. The...

—John Darnielle

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AgainstBook
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Who knows the secrets of anybody’s heart.

—John Darnielle

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HeartSecrets
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My favorite movies are gory horror films. I love Faulkner. I wanted to see the most painful things possible.

—John Darnielle

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Possible
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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...

—John Darnielle

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ActActing
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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...

—John Darnielle

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ChallengeSpeak
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At 23, you can completely, literally reinvent yourself if you want to.

—John Darnielle

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LiterallyReinvent
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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

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Creative
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I’m finding things out about myself as a person – as a writer – as I write, and so are the people who listen to what I do. But they have this additional aspect of...

—John Darnielle

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StuffWriter
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I used to break three or four strings a night, and the show would be over because I didn’t know how to change the strings.

—John Darnielle

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NightThree
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For years, I’ve written narrators who aren’t gender-identified. When I do autobiographical stuff, that’s different, obviously. But I’ve always tried to keep my songs as potentially not a man’s thing.

—John Darnielle

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SongsStuffTried
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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,...

—John Darnielle

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LawWhile
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Cool parents, I thought, are the ones who know nothing. It made me feel a little sad for mine, but I didn’t say any of this.

—John Darnielle

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ChildrenParent-Child-RelationshipsParents
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My songs tend to sprint toward some epiphany and then explode.

—John Darnielle

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SongsTendToward
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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.

—John Darnielle

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GentlemanPlentyRead
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This is why improvisational music and comedy is so inspiring: You are seeing something being born, and that energy, there is no substitute for. These songs, most of them, are about a minute old when...

—John Darnielle

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BornEnergy
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Back in the ’90s, if you did mail order in music, you could make a good living doing it if you could hustle.

—John Darnielle

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Living
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To me, everything is always new. People involved in my personal life make fun of me a lot for not being jaded.

—John Darnielle

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FunPersonal
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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...

—John Darnielle

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HappyHatePlaying
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I want to make sure people know I don’t think I have any magic powers. I just have a story that I share.

—John Darnielle

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MagicStorySure
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‘Heel Turn 2’ is about a person who’s in a match, and he’s playing as though the match were real. But it is real! If you’re standing in the middle of a ring, and you’re...

—John Darnielle

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PlayingThoughTurn
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Opera combines pretty basic theater and poetry, but the storyline itself is actually quite poetic and, after some digital research, taking that actual content and seeing it as undeniably poetic.

—John Darnielle

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PrettyQuite
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What you were supposed to hear when the record played backwards was the phrase wolf in white van. Nobody had a very firm idea of what that was supposed to mean, but they all agreed...

—John Darnielle

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BeliefMeaningReligion
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Once you start talking to people, you find out there’s a lot more wrestling fans than you think there are.

—John Darnielle

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OnceStartTalking
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I think the self is complicated, that at various times we are all various people, and wrestling actually does a lot with that. You have things like heel turns where a person goes from being...

—John Darnielle

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SelfTimes
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Wrestlers give their bodies to their work. I don’t know if I like the word ‘crazy’ here. What I would say is there are people who have a different relationship to their bodies than most...

—John Darnielle

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CrazyHere
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For me, moving is always a big opportunity. It’s just a enough of a shift in outlook that every time I move, it seems to open something up.

—John Darnielle

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MovingSeems
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To me, the only good reason to be touring is if you still have something good to share instead of just revisiting past glories.

—John Darnielle

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PastReason
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If you show up to work five days in a row, nobody’s going to pat you on the back – everyone does that. Well, do that with your writing. Just show up. Be there for...

—John Darnielle

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DaysNobody
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I was writing poetry, and the Mountain Goats was an outgrowth of that.

—John Darnielle

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GoatsMountain
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I always assumed people wanted to hear me tell stories, but then I had ‘The Sunset Tree.’ It turned out, my own stories were the ones that registered with people the hardest.

—John Darnielle

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HearStoriesTree
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People like to say how much they like stuff, but with ‘The Sunset Tree,’ people shared stories about what it meant for them. And that stuff’s so humbling and amazing.

—John Darnielle

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StoriesStuff
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