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John Darnielle Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: american
Birth: March 16, 1967

Topics

Good Past Me You Reason Share

Political elites vote in a more partisan fashion than the mass public; this tendency, too, follows a curve. The more you know, the more likely you are to vote in an ideologically consistent way, not just following your party but following a set of constraints dictated by a political ideology.

Fashion Political You Party Know

If Congress can move President's Day, Columbus Day and, alas, Martin Luther King's Birthday celebration for the convenience of shoppers, shouldn't they at least consider moving Election Day for the convenience of voters?

Birthday Day King Moving Election

Pay attention to your friends; pay attention to that cousin that jumps up on the picnic table at the family reunion and goes a little too 'nutty,' you know what I mean? Pay attention to that aunt that's down in the basement that never comes upstairs. We have to pay attention to our friends, pay attention to your family, and offer a hand.

Family Friends Picnic Attention You

I always see Beethoven as having been influenced by Haydn. Yet he started a revolution - not just to be different, but also because he lived in a revolutionary era.

Revolution Be Different Always See

You can't truly hear your own voice until the shouting around you disappears. New ideas and possibilities - our own ideas, our own possibilities - will occur only when we step away from the Virtual Panopticon.

John Twelve Hawks

Step Ideas Voice Possibilities You

I've always been funny, but I never considered it as a particular career path until my early 30s, when I realized that hip-hop wasn't going to be the long term.

Funny Path Long Early Career Never

There are two kinds of stones, as everyone knows, one of which rolls.

Two Everyone Kinds Stones Knows

I've had a strong will power to become one of the best. And I'm not gonna let nothing stop me from going to my dream.

Trombone Shorty

Power Best Me Strong Dream Stop

For years, I've had a hankering for the portrait of Benjamin Franklin by Joseph Duplessis. Franklin is credited with so many inventions: the postal system, lightning rods, the constitution. He was a rock star before there was such a thing.

Constitution Rock Star Portrait Rock

My sixth book, 'A Breath of Snow and Ashes,' was nominated for a number of book awards, one of which was The Quill Award, and they had it in New York at the Natural History Museum.

Snow History New York Book Award

I like to keep my options open. I'm known for changing my mind.

Mind Open Keep Options Changing

This is really America in therapy, people trying to get themselves together and be whole.

Together People America Trying Get

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