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 WILLIAMSIt’s a collective truth that slavery is wrong, that child labor is wrong, that gross inequality is wrong. God didn’t send it.
More Dar Williams Quotes
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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.
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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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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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I really value people besides parents who nurture kids.
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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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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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If you’re looking for can-do, earthy-crunchy attitude then you’ve got to go to Wisconsin.
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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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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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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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If you’re lucky you find something that reflects you, Helps you feel your life, protects you, Cradles you and connects you to everything.
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There’s always people who came 600 miles to hear the song you didn’t play.
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A straightforward capitalist society would’ve cut them off and let them die. So I was saved by my friends and by my family and by people who cared about me, and by modern psychotherapy that cared about women.
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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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All the things you treasure most will be the hardest won I will watch you struggle long before the answers come But I won’t make it harder, I’ll be there to cheer you on I’ll shine the light that guides you down the road you’re walking on
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