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”.
DAR WILLIAMSWe 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.
More Dar Williams Quotes
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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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Every once in a while I’ll say something…I dropped the F-bomb early on in my career. There was this lesbian couple and they looked super-hip.
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Every time you opt in to kindness Make one connection, used to divide us It echoes all over the world
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I would encourage people to bridge broadly and creatively in their communities, not just because that creates the most fun and resiliency, but also because it creates the most points of access for people to be part of the community, which is what democracy is at its best.
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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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We have evolved to understand that language of power that’s taken too much.
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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 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.”
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Therapy was the biggest romance of my life.
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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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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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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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They preach that I should save the world. They pray that I won’t do a better job of it.
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And I’ll act like I have faith, and like that faith never ends, but I really just have friends.
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At this point, I feel like I have roots in a lot of places. I have friends who have put down roots, in Seattle and San Francisco and Portland, and I feel very close to them.
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