John Darnielle Quotes
I think 'The Sunset Tree' is really the album on which I really learned to trust other musicians, which is so important.
Quotes to Explore
-
He's too short, he's too... tall, he's... just not going to work.
-
A 'philosophical dictionary' is not a dictionary of philosophy that you use to look up obscure thinkers or recondite terms. It is a collection of brief and pithy essays on diverse topics, informed by one vision, and usually arranged in alphabetical order.
-
Write your own songs. It helps you to mean what you're singing, which will then make it mean something to listeners.
-
Phrases that have historical significance or become headlines don't just magically appear in the moment. They are mindfully planned.
-
The characters are always the focal point of a book for me, whether I'm writing or reading. I may enjoy a book that has an intriguing mystery or a good plot, but to become one of my real favorites, it has to have great characters.
-
Nice to see your home fans boo you. That's what loyal support is.
-
We are more casual about qualifying the people we allow to act as advocates in the courtroom than we are about licensing electricians.
-
My parents are divorced, and seeing that was really painful for me. Really painful for me. But that's also a big part of why I'm intrigued by the dynamics between people – because I was close to something that fell apart.
-
People are basically the same the world over. Everybody wants the same things - to be happy, to be healthy, to be at least reasonably prosperous, and to be secure. They want friends, peace of mind, good family relationships, and hope that tomorrow is going to be even better than today.
-
As a direct line to human feeling, empathic experience, genuine language and detail, poetry is everything that headline news is not. It takes us inside situations, helps us imagine life from more than one perspective, honors imagery and metaphor - those great tools of thought - and deepens our confidence in a meaningful world.
-
There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius.
-
There will never be talking pictures.
-
You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.
-
It's okay to take time for yourself. We give so much of ourselves to others and we need to be fueled both physically and mentally. If we are in balance, it helps us in all our interactions.
-
Within Internet users, you have a big chunk of people who can convert to online shopping.
-
The enchanting charms of this sublime science reveal only to those who have the courage to go deeply into it.
-
I never wanted to be one of those 'Where are they now?' kids.
-
I just think that if one is going to preach nonviolence and one is going to advocate for nonviolence, one's standard should be consistent.
-
Every year I go to the Google Zeitgeist conference, which is invite-only, and I'm one of about 20 women and five fashion people out of the 400 there.
-
I don't keep a diary or a journal. Sometimes I'll send emails to friends, and that's a way of recording what I was thinking at any given time. But I've never been a journal keeper.
-
Meditation on inevitable death should be performed daily. Every day one should meditate on being carried away by surging waves, falling from thousand-foot cliffs, dying of disease.
-
I think the song itself, 'Smoke and Fire,' is just a metaphor for the feelings that you feel in a relationship.
-
I think 'The Sunset Tree' is really the album on which I really learned to trust other musicians, which is so important.
