The light that stopped the night felt like forgiveness.
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.
More Dar Williams Quotes
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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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There’s always people who came 600 miles to hear the song you didn’t play.
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Therapy was the biggest romance of my life.
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The 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.
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They preach that I should save the world. They pray that I won’t do a better job of it.
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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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I’ve watched towns and cities evolve and become very resilient, and fun, and unique, and prosperous on their own terms. And the secret is bridging. It’s when the local church has a fun clothing swap fundraiser with a temple, and then the next year they bring in the mosque.
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I fear that to fall in love with you is to fall from a great and gruesome height.
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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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Women were making more money. Women were saying, “My voice counts. If we’re going out on a Friday night, I don’t want to see a Rambo movie. I want to go see a singer/songwriter who sings about my life”.
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Slavery doesn’t have any positives.
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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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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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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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I have a sordid past.
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