What happened on “As Cool As I Am” was, you know how in the ’90s, “the personal is political, the political is personal”? That was a really big thing.
DAR WILLIAMSI am happy to do political fundraisers. I always hope that my friends will be, too. It’s part of who you are and you shouldn’t feel ashamed of what you believe in.
More Dar Williams Quotes
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And you bring your words, But you’re just like them, You’re unprepared ‘Cause you don’t know the terrain
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There was one tour where I thought, “If I can’t get this feeling back of being excited to be on the stage, then I will quit.” Because I have friends who have dialed it in and I watch their concerts and shake my head. I’m sure the audience can tell, too.
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Slavery doesn’t have any positives.
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I went from having three little jobs that I strung together to being on the road full-time; having some savings that my managers told me to spend.
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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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I am one of those sort of “lesser” types, those sensitive types, those people who wouldn’t have made it on their own if other people hadn’t helped them.
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I really lucked out with that song [“As Cool As I Am”]. Men were becoming much more comfortable with all the different facets and parts of their identity, including their gentler, funnier, sillier, nurturing parts. They started showing up.
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The best, most solid place to stand as you look at our present situation is on a foundation of history. The Roman Empire, the British Empire, and the Nazi empire all have things in common.
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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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I have a sordid past.
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There’s always people who came 600 miles to hear the song you didn’t play.
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I really value people besides parents who nurture kids.
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I fear that to fall in love with you is to fall from a great and gruesome height.
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If you’re looking for can-do, earthy-crunchy attitude then you’ve got to go to Wisconsin.
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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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