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John Darnielle Quotes

American - Musician | March 16, 1967 -

When I'm writing a song, I'm just making stuff up as I go along.

Writing Song Go Up Along Stuff

Sometimes I'll write without the guitar or the piano, but most of the time I'll be playing and just improvising some words. And when I get something that sounds good, a line with a story in it, I'll try and tease it out and figure out where the story is going.

Good Time Words Story Guitar Try

I don't sit down and say I'm going to write a song about this or that. They are never mapped out.

Song Down Say Never Write Out

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 crying in the next room.

View You Old Over Month Room

I write for a lot of places, so I'm on a lot of promo lists.

Places Write Lists I Write Promo

I am permanently a student of people who make great songs, but besides sort of learning by absorption, I just love listening to music, hearing what's going on, hearing new things or new old things.

Love Learning Music Great New Things

Sometimes I do 'So Desperate' solo in the middle of the set. I really love to sing that song.

Love Song Sometimes Solo Middle Set

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 Bible, and especially the book of Genesis, is pretty unapologetically patriarchal.

Faith Book Bible Doing You Feminism

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.

Man Always Years Different Stuff

I try not to write songs in which men glamorize their own need for approval from women. That's kinda a bogus way to go out. But I try to do this quietly. I'm not about to go around telling people how they should or shouldn't think. My feminism is for me.

Women Men People Me Think Go

I don't have a favorite drink. I don't do favorites of anything, practically.

Drink Anything Favorite Favorites

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 that goes from format to format.

Kitchen Down Go Will Write Office

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