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.
DAR WILLIAMSWe have evolved to understand that language of power that’s taken too much.
More Dar Williams Quotes
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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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There’s always people who came 600 miles to hear the song you didn’t play.
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Women were making more money. Women were saying, “My voice counts. If we’re going out on a Friday night, I don’t want to see a Rambo movie. I want to go see a singer/songwriter who sings about my life”.
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A song versus an album is not like a scene versus a play.
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If you’re lucky you find something that reflects you, Helps you feel your life, protects you, Cradles you and connects you to everything.
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The light that stopped the night felt like forgiveness.
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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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What was nice about the nineties is that it was an example of music that responded to a desire of the times. It spoke to the social conditions of the times.
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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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I was raised by parents who really admired the religious leaders of the left, as many 60s and 70s liberals did.
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Everyone has to decide how they’re going to appear in their lives, how they’re going to put themselves out there to the world.
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[Mortal City ] was also the beginning of the reality of the fact that I was going to have little pieces of my personality identifying with all of these different parts of the country.
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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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I came out of that and said I don’t want to go back to feeling depressed. So I asked myself, what can I be optimistic about, in terms of the course of the planet? And I discovered there was no end to the optimism I felt.
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The pendulum usually swings from left to right and then right to left, but there are so many people in power who have taken the pendulum and just pinned it to the right that there is a fear that it’s never going to swing back.
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