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Readings are more like weaving a tapestry. Possibly people are getting a cathartic release - but music is physical. Music pummels you. It's got a beat; it's loud. Whereas this is more cerebral.

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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.

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I always worry that I'm a dilettante: I know something about lots of things but don't have exhaustive knowledge of much.

From John Darnielle

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.

From John Darnielle

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.

From John Darnielle

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.

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I watched 'Fame,' and I just love the choreography. It just gives me a place to be in another zone.

From John Darnielle

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.

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It usually happens that I have multiple different projects going on at once, and one can be referencing the other.

From John Darnielle

You get this really cool groove when you're playing just piano, bass, and drums where everyone's sort of feeling each other's space, which is the only way to put it, but it really is true, and everyone's sort of sitting in their own pocket. It's kind of jazz-like.

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