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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.

Dar Williams

Milwaukee one of my favorite cites; I think Milwaukee is #1.
DAR WILLIAMS

Citing Favorite Thinking
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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Kids Reading Years
And I’ll act like I have faith, and like that faith never ends, but I really just have friends.
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Ends Faith Friend Have
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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Child Children Labor Slavery
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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Discover Feelings Optimism Optimistic
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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Come Notion Space
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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Change Movement Structure Trying
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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Birthday Blow Couple
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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Look Moment One Shook Work
The light that stopped the night felt like forgiveness.
DAR WILLIAMS

Light Night Revenge
Choices you made about how you recorded and what instruments you used and how much real versus how much synthetic. Those were choices that were seen as very political at the time.
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Choice Make Political Time
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.
DAR WILLIAMS

Careers Couple Thinking
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.
DAR WILLIAMS

Country People Portland Roots
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.
DAR WILLIAMS

Artist Different Song
There was a lot of distance between the Dar of The Honesty Room and the Dar of Mortal City, so there was no attempt.
DAR WILLIAMS

Cities Distance Honesty
I really value people besides parents who nurture kids.
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Kids Parent People

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