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.
DAR WILLIAMSIf you’re looking for can-do, earthy-crunchy attitude then you’ve got to go to Wisconsin.
More Dar Williams Quotes
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Therapy was the biggest romance of my life.
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Every time you opt in to kindness Make one connection, used to divide us It echoes all over the world
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We have evolved to understand that language of power that’s taken too much.
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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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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 happy to do political fundraisers. I always hope that my friends will be, too. It’s part of who you are and you shouldn’t feel ashamed of what you believe in.
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At this point, I feel like I have roots in a lot of places. I have friends who have put down roots, in Seattle and San Francisco and Portland, and I feel very close to them.
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The summer ends and we wonder who we are And there you go, my friends, with your boxes in your car And today I passed the high school, the river, the maple tree I passed the farms that made it
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Milwaukee one of my favorite cites; I think Milwaukee is #1.
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Now that I believe in God, I have an extra layer of saying I’ll write about what I write about and assume that I’m being offered the opportunity to illuminate something important. But when you think you are too important, you become some sort of fascist.
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There’s always people who came 600 miles to hear the song you didn’t play.
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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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Slavery doesn’t have any positives.
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There’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.
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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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