I remember doing “As Cool As I Am” and Steve Miller, the producer, saying “I really hear a drum loop here. I want to play it for you.”
DAR WILLIAMSSlavery doesn’t have any positives.
More Dar Williams Quotes
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The light that stopped the night felt like forgiveness.
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There was a lot of distance between the Dar of The Honesty Room and the Dar of Mortal City, so there was no attempt.
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Now that I believe in God, I have an extra layer of saying I’ll write about what I write about and assume that I’m being offered the opportunity to illuminate something important. But when you think you are too important, you become some sort of fascist.
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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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If you’re looking for can-do, earthy-crunchy attitude then you’ve got to go to Wisconsin.
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I have odometer readings, kids; all sorts of measurements of what I’ve been doing for the last 20 years. I get it. I get that it was a while ago.
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Therapy was the biggest romance of my life.
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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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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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Guiding the ship takes more the your skill. It is the compass inside as the strength of your will.
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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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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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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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For my 50th birthday I just want to make it all make sense [being exactly half introvert], and then a couple of weeks later do the blow-out with all my friends.
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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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