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
DAR WILLIAMSThere’s always people who came 600 miles to hear the song you didn’t play.
More Dar Williams Quotes
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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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And where does magic come from? I think that magic’s in the learning.
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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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There’s always people who came 600 miles to hear the song you didn’t play.
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I have odometer readings, kids; all sorts of measurements of what I’ve been doing for the last 20 years. I get it. I get that it was a while ago.
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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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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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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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And you bring your words, But you’re just like them, You’re unprepared ‘Cause you don’t know the terrain
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I fear that to fall in love with you is to fall from a great and gruesome height.
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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.
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When we learn about ourselves, we can evolve.
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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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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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Every time you opt in to kindness Make one connection, used to divide us It echoes all over the world
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