You fly all over the country opening for these other people. You pay a publicist to get some press while you’re establishing yourself and you will be solvent in this career forevermore.
DAR WILLIAMSSlavery doesn’t have any positives.
More Dar Williams Quotes
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There’s always people who came 600 miles to hear the song you didn’t play.
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We all do the wrong thing. And then we have to wake up the next morning and live with the fact that we have done things that are wrong.
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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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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.
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I have a sordid past.
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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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And where does magic come from? I think that magic’s in the learning.
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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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I fear that to fall in love with you is to fall from a great and gruesome height.
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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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The light that stopped the night felt like forgiveness.
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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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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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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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A song versus an album is not like a scene versus a play.
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