John Darnielle Quotes About Songs

Quotes about: Songs

• If my songs are being listened to between any other songs, that is awesome, and I'm glad people are getting something out of them.

  John Darnielle

  Song, People, Glad

  Source: www.motherjones.com

• People want you to play the songs they know. I try not to reflect too much, and I don't really like to focus too much on myself.

  John Darnielle

  Song, Play, People

  Source: pitchfork.com

• The studio's a collaborative environment. I just try to let people bring their own ideas to the songs and see what happens.

  John Darnielle

  Song, Ideas, People

  Source: pitchfork.com

• People don't tend to notice, but in the past 10 years especially there's been a lot of growth in how I write songs and what goes into them. You can listen to Mountain Goats from 1991 to 2007 and never hear a seventh chord. In 2007 or 2008, I started working on the piano to grow as a songwriter. I started throwing major sevens in and sixes and more interesting stuff.

  John Darnielle

  Song, Writing, Past

  Source: www.motherjones.com

• As important as politics are to me, the life and the spirit of people's emotions are much more important. People live real lives where they love and grieve and feel pain and joy and that is a whole separate sphere. All that political stuff, I believe in it strongly, but not as strongly as I believe that at some point you or someone is going to need a song to sit with and comfort them in a hard time.

  John Darnielle

  Song, Pain, Real

• If my songs are being listened to between any other songs, that is awesome, and I'm glad people are getting something out of them. We go to countries like Germany, where I can't imagine that all of my fans are engaging with the lyrics first and foremost. I think they're catching a vibe, a feeling. I consider myself a lyricist first and foremost, but if you get something else out of what I do, that's fine too. I'm not sitting back and telling people how they have to take my stuff. We just want to play music, and hope that people like it.

  John Darnielle

  Country, Song, Thinking

  "What’s Got John Darnielle’s Goat?". Interview with Emma Silvers, www.motherjones.com. March 25, 2011.

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