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 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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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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Every once in a while I’ll say something…I dropped the F-bomb early on in my career. There was this lesbian couple and they looked super-hip.
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If you’re looking for can-do, earthy-crunchy attitude then you’ve got to go to Wisconsin.
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Therapy was the biggest romance of my life.
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There’s always people who came 600 miles to hear the song you didn’t play.
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The summer ends and we wonder who we are And there you go, my friends, with your boxes in your car And today I passed the high school, the river, the maple tree I passed the farms that made it
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A song versus an album is not like a scene versus a play.
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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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We have evolved to understand that language of power that’s taken too much.
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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.
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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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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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And where does magic come from? I think that magic’s in the learning.
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I really value people besides parents who nurture kids.
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Guiding the ship takes more the your skill. It is the compass inside as the strength of your will.
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