John Darnielle Quotes

I love to dance so much. It's one of my guilty pleasures in life and my hobby.

I just want to live my life a little freely and not adhere to any schedule - just make music and have fun.

I like to go to the gym with my girls, practice yoga, try new recipes, bake, have slumber parties, go to the beach, have adventures, book hunt, shop for new records, or road trip somewhere... anything that keeps me laughing and excited about the day, really. I like feeling free to do what I or my friends want to do on our days off.

It's nice just to be able to go out and, basically, be able to play other types of music and not have any pressure to almost explain it and justify why you did. I just do it because I like to have some fun.

I don't want music to be a job for me; I want it to be something I'm doing for fun. As long it's not a job, then you're straight.

I don't always have to be on what is the newest in music is. I'm slowly educating myself in music. For me, I feel more free in not knowing everything in what I'm doing. You can start making up too many rules for yourself. It should just be love and fun and feeling good.

I don't want to put any pressure on the music; it's my hobby and my release - a thing that I love.

The idea is that we're doing it just for the joy of the actual physical experience. We may record something just for the fun of it, but the idea is just to be truly joyful and truly fun, especially for me, because I take myself too seriously all the time.

There were no rules, other than that the song should sound good and be fun to play.

I sing just for fun.

I believe in dancing.

I want to play music when I want, write a song if I want or watch a baseball game if I want.

I love dancing. It's one of my favorite things in the whole world.

I'm all about dancing.

I'm a dancer. I love dancing and going out all the time. It makes me happy.

I don't want to be part of a band unless it's fun.

I like to dance, I love music and sometimes in the changing room I am dancing.

I didn't take music seriously in the beginning. It just kind of a hobby to me. It was something that I love doing for fun.

... We have quite a large area, and that makes it more fun for us - certainly more satisfying, because it doesn't restrict us to one particular idea or one particular style. The result, I think, is pretty interesting ... we don't expect to make a fortune at it or ever be popular or famous or worshipped or hit The Ed Sullivan Show or the circuses or the big top. As long as we can play, we'll play, regardless of what it's for, who it's for or anything. It's fun for us - that's the important thing.

I've always had an urge to feed my need to have fun and feel free. I don't see any interesting alternatives.

When you're really having fun, you're always doing it a little bit in a way that you're not supposed to. That's when great things happen.

I like to sing very much.

I don't often know exactly what's coming next, and that makes it more fun. And you know, for me, this entire genre is all about that; it's all about having fun and getting away from the mundane world for just a little while.

My goal is to entertain myself and others.

Some people wish above all to conform to the rules, I wish only to render what I can hear. There is no theory. You have only to listen. Pleasure is the law.