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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.

Dar Williams

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 WILLIAMS

Fear Left never Right Swing
I fear that to fall in love with you is to fall from a great and gruesome height.
DAR WILLIAMS

Falling Gruesome Height Love
We have evolved to understand that language of power that’s taken too much.
DAR WILLIAMS

Language Much Taken Too
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
DAR WILLIAMS

Cheer Light Struggle
Things are important to you and then they recede within a day. That’s the only thing that keeps me from believing that there’s going to be any one organic big wave; although the Americana (music) thing has been happening for a while.
DAR WILLIAMS

Believing Country Important Music Things
Guiding the ship takes more the your skill. It is the compass inside as the strength of your will.
DAR WILLIAMS

Compass Ships Skills
They preach that I should save the world. They pray that I won’t do a better job of it.
DAR WILLIAMS

Jobs Praying World
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.
DAR WILLIAMS

Choice Make Political Time
I have a sordid past.
DAR WILLIAMS

Happen Past Sordid
If you’re looking for can-do, earthy-crunchy attitude then you’ve got to go to Wisconsin.
DAR WILLIAMS

Attitude Crunchy Wisconsin
And you bring your words, But you’re just like them, You’re unprepared ‘Cause you don’t know the terrain
DAR WILLIAMS

Causes Knows Terrain
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.
DAR WILLIAMS

Artist Different Song
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”.
DAR WILLIAMS

Friday Night Songwriter Women
[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.
DAR WILLIAMS

Cities Country Reality
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.
DAR WILLIAMS

Carer Extra Fly Layer Publicist
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.
DAR WILLIAMS

Believe Opportunity Writing

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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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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