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.
DAR WILLIAMSThe 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.
DAR WILLIAMSSlavery doesn’t have any positives.
DAR WILLIAMSI 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.
DAR WILLIAMSThere’s tons of anger and angst and peculiarity and eccentricity, and good towns know that that’s okay. But towns that are kind of bullshit don’t know what to do with all those feelings.
DAR WILLIAMSI 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 WILLIAMSBut where do we come up with this notion of a woman in which the less space you take up, the more you’re worth?
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.”
DAR WILLIAMSWhen we learn about ourselves, we can evolve.
DAR WILLIAMSI 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.”
DAR WILLIAMSGuiding the ship takes more the your skill. It is the compass inside as the strength of your will.
DAR WILLIAMSOne 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.
DAR WILLIAMSWe have evolved to understand that language of power that’s taken too much.
DAR WILLIAMSAnd I’ll act like I have faith, and like that faith never ends, but I really just have friends.
DAR WILLIAMSEveryone has to decide how they’re going to appear in their lives, how they’re going to put themselves out there to the world.
DAR WILLIAMSIt’s a collective truth that slavery is wrong, that child labor is wrong, that gross inequality is wrong. God didn’t send it.
DAR WILLIAMSI have a sordid past.
DAR WILLIAMS