Therapy was the biggest romance of my life.
DAR WILLIAMSEvery time you opt in to kindness Make one connection, used to divide us It echoes all over the world
More Dar Williams Quotes
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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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Slavery doesn’t have any positives.
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One of them looked at me and shook her head, like “Don’t do that.” I think she was doing it to say, “It doesn’t work.” She didn’t say anything but it was this cautionary moment. I knew it didn’t work. There are just so many other words to choose from.
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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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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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It’s a collective truth that slavery is wrong, that child labor is wrong, that gross inequality is wrong. God didn’t send it.
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There’s always people who came 600 miles to hear the song you didn’t play.
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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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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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A song versus an album is not like a scene versus a play.
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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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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.
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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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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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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.
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