A straightforward capitalist society would’ve cut them off and let them die. So I was saved by my friends and by my family and by people who cared about me, and by modern psychotherapy that cared about women.
DAR WILLIAMSFor 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.
More Dar Williams Quotes
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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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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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When we learn about ourselves, we can evolve.
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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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We have evolved to understand that language of power that’s taken too much.
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And where does magic come from? I think that magic’s in the learning.
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There’s always people who came 600 miles to hear the song you didn’t play.
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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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I would push for more production and Steve Miller would say, “Why do you want to have more production when you have real songs? You don’t want to cover up the song.”
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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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The best, most solid place to stand as you look at our present situation is on a foundation of history. The Roman Empire, the British Empire, and the Nazi empire all have things in common.
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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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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 was raised by parents who really admired the religious leaders of the left, as many 60s and 70s liberals did.
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They preach that I should save the world. They pray that I won’t do a better job of it.
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