Milwaukee one of my favorite cites; I think Milwaukee is #1.
DAR WILLIAMSThere was a lot of distance between the Dar of The Honesty Room and the Dar of Mortal City, so there was no attempt.
More Dar Williams Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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I would push for more production and Steve Miller would say, “Why do you want to have more production when you have real songs? You don’t want to cover up the song.”
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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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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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All the things you treasure most will be the hardest won I will watch you struggle long before the answers come But I won’t make it harder, I’ll be there to cheer you on I’ll shine the light that guides you down the road you’re walking on
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A straightforward capitalist society would’ve cut them off and let them die. So I was saved by my friends and by my family and by people who cared about me, and by modern psychotherapy that cared about women.
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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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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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I’m just trying to be part of the movement that decentralizes and hopefully creates peace. By supporting smaller, democratic structures, you can effect change.
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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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