A song versus an album is not like a scene versus a play.
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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And I’ll act like I have faith, and like that faith never ends, but I really just have 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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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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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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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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There was a lot of distance between the Dar of The Honesty Room and the Dar of Mortal City, so there was no attempt.
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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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[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.
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I came out of that and said I don’t want to go back to feeling depressed. So I asked myself, what can I be optimistic about, in terms of the course of the planet? And I discovered there was no end to the optimism I felt.
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The light that stopped the night felt like forgiveness.
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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 was one tour where I thought, “If I can’t get this feeling back of being excited to be on the stage, then I will quit.” Because I have friends who have dialed it in and I watch their concerts and shake my head. I’m sure the audience can tell, too.
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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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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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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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