Through the last days of the century And I knew that I was going to learn again Again, in this less hazy light I saw the fields beyond the fields The fields beyond the field
DAR WILLIAMSEvery 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.
More Dar Williams Quotes
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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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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 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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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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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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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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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 light that stopped the night felt like forgiveness.
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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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There’s always people who came 600 miles to hear the song you didn’t play.
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Guiding the ship takes more the your skill. It is the compass inside as the strength of your will.
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I have a sordid past.
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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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When we learn about ourselves, we can evolve.
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Things are important to you and then they recede within a day. That’s the only thing that keeps me from believing that there’s going to be any one organic big wave; although the Americana (music) thing has been happening for a while.
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