Therapy was the biggest romance of my life.
DAR WILLIAMSThe 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.
More Dar Williams Quotes
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And where does magic come from? I think that magic’s in the learning.
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There’s always people who came 600 miles to hear the song you didn’t play.
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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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God looks like a guidance counselor, God’s got that smile. God says, ‘How could this be? That’s really odd I guess I’ll have to check my records, silly me, you know, I’m only God.’
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You fly all over the country opening for these other people. You pay a publicist to get some press while you’re establishing yourself and you will be solvent in this career forevermore.
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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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Milwaukee one of my favorite cites; I think Milwaukee is #1.
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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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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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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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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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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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A song versus an album is not like a scene versus a play.
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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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[Mortal City ] was also the beginning of the reality of the fact that I was going to have little pieces of my personality identifying with all of these different parts of the country.
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