They preach that I should save the world. They pray that I won’t do a better job of it.
DAR WILLIAMSTherapy was the biggest romance of my life.
More Dar Williams Quotes
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When we learn about ourselves, we can evolve.
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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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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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I am one of those sort of “lesser” types, those sensitive types, those people who wouldn’t have made it on their own if other people hadn’t helped them.
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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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One of them looked at me and shook her head, like “Don’t do that.” I think she was doing it to say, “It doesn’t work.” She didn’t say anything but it was this cautionary moment. I knew it didn’t work. There are just so many other words to choose from.
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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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A song versus an album is not like a scene versus a play.
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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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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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I fear that to fall in love with you is to fall from a great and gruesome height.
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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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The pendulum usually swings from left to right and then right to left, but there are so many people in power who have taken the pendulum and just pinned it to the right that there is a fear that it’s never going to swing back.
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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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