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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.

Dar Williams

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 WILLIAMS

Friend Psychotherapy Society Straightforward
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.
DAR WILLIAMS

Choice Make Political Time
Slavery doesn’t have any positives.
DAR WILLIAMS

Any Positives Slavery
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.”
DAR WILLIAMS

Cover Real Song Up
Milwaukee one of my favorite cites; I think Milwaukee is #1.
DAR WILLIAMS

Citing Favorite Thinking
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”.
DAR WILLIAMS

Friday Night Songwriter Women
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.
DAR WILLIAMS

Appear Lives Themselves World
It’s a collective truth that slavery is wrong, that child labor is wrong, that gross inequality is wrong. God didn’t send it.
DAR WILLIAMS

Child Children Labor Slavery
There’s tons of anger and angst and peculiarity and eccentricity, and good towns know that that’s okay. But towns that are kind of bullshit don’t know what to do with all those feelings.
DAR WILLIAMS

Bullshit Feelings Towns
A song versus an album is not like a scene versus a play.
DAR WILLIAMS

Albums Play Song
I’ve watched towns and cities evolve and become very resilient, and fun, and unique, and prosperous on their own terms. And the secret is bridging. It’s when the local church has a fun clothing swap fundraiser with a temple, and then the next year they bring in the mosque.
DAR WILLIAMS

Cities Fun Unique
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.
DAR WILLIAMS

Carer Extra Fly Layer Publicist
And where does magic come from? I think that magic’s in the learning.
DAR WILLIAMS

Come Learning Magic Thinking
There’s always people who came 600 miles to hear the song you didn’t play.
DAR WILLIAMS

People Play Song
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.
DAR WILLIAMS

Friday Nice Night
I remember doing “As Cool As I Am” and Steve Miller, the producer, saying “I really hear a drum loop here. I want to play it for you.”
DAR WILLIAMS

Play Sound Thinking

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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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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