If you’re lucky you find something that reflects you, Helps you feel your life, protects you, Cradles you and connects you to everything.
DAR WILLIAMSIf you’re looking for can-do, earthy-crunchy attitude then you’ve got to go to Wisconsin.
More Dar Williams Quotes
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Milwaukee one of my favorite cites; I think Milwaukee is #1.
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There’s tons of anger and angst and peculiarity and eccentricity, and good towns know that that’s okay. But towns that are kind of bullshit don’t know what to do with all those feelings.
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A lot of the songs are pretty unmasked. If you listen to “As Cool As I Am,” it’s not all that different from what you were hearing from Ani DiFranco and some of the other indie women artists of the time. It was still in that context, still seen as folk music.
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The summer ends and we wonder who we are And there you go, my friends, with your boxes in your car And today I passed the high school, the river, the maple tree I passed the farms that made it
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Guiding the ship takes more the your skill. It is the compass inside as the strength of your will.
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The light that stopped the night felt like forgiveness.
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Every once in a while I’ll say something…I dropped the F-bomb early on in my career. There was this lesbian couple and they looked super-hip.
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But where do we come up with this notion of a woman in which the less space you take up, the more you’re worth?
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Every time you opt in to kindness Make one connection, used to divide us It echoes all over the world
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And I’ll act like I have faith, and like that faith never ends, but I really just have friends.
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God looks like a guidance counselor, God’s got that smile. God says, ‘How could this be? That’s really odd I guess I’ll have to check my records, silly me, you know, I’m only God.’
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Through the last days of the century And I knew that I was going to learn again Again, in this less hazy light I saw the fields beyond the fields The fields beyond the field
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We have evolved to understand that language of power that’s taken too much.
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It’s a collective truth that slavery is wrong, that child labor is wrong, that gross inequality is wrong. God didn’t send it.
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I have a sordid past.
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