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.
DAR WILLIAMSI 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.”
More Dar Williams Quotes
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I have a sordid past.
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A song versus an album is not like a scene versus a play.
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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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I really lucked out with that song [“As Cool As I Am”]. Men were becoming much more comfortable with all the different facets and parts of their identity, including their gentler, funnier, sillier, nurturing parts. They started showing up.
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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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If you’re looking for can-do, earthy-crunchy attitude then you’ve got to go to Wisconsin.
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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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 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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