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.
DAR WILLIAMSI 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.
More Dar Williams Quotes
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The light that stopped the night felt like forgiveness.
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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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A song versus an album is not like a scene versus a play.
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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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I 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.
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I have a sordid past.
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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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There’s always people who came 600 miles to hear the song you didn’t play.
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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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Milwaukee one of my favorite cites; I think Milwaukee is #1.
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I really lucked out with that song [“As Cool As I Am”]. Men were becoming much more comfortable with all the different facets and parts of their identity, including their gentler, funnier, sillier, nurturing parts. They started showing up.
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And where does magic come from? I think that magic’s in the learning.
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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
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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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