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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.

  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Dar Williams Quote - A lot of the songs are pretty unmasked. If you listen to “As Cool As I Am,” it’s not all that different from what you were hearing from Ani DiFranco and some of the other indie women artists of the time. It was still in that context, still seen as folk music.

    A lot of the songs are pretty unmasked. If you listen to “As Cool As I Am,” it’s not all that different from what you were hearing from Ani DiFranco and some of the other indie women artists of the time. It was still in that context, still seen as folk music.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Dar Williams Quote - 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.

    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.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Dar Williams Quote - 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. Download This Image

    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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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Dar Williams Quote - 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.

    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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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Dar Williams Quote - 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. Download This Image

    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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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Dar Williams Quote - 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”. Download This Image

    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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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Dar Williams Quote - 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? Download This Image

    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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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Dar Williams Quote - I was raised by parents who really admired the religious leaders of the left, as many 60s and 70s liberals did.

    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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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Dar Williams Quote - Milwaukee one of my favorite cites; I think Milwaukee is #1.

    Milwaukee one of my favorite cites; I think Milwaukee is #1.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Dar Williams Quote - 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. Download This Image

    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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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Dar Williams Quote - 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.

    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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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Dar Williams Quote - 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. Download This Image

    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.

    DAR WILLIAMS
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Dar Williams Quote - And I’ll act like I have faith, and like that faith never ends, but I really just have friends.

    And I’ll act like I have faith, and like that faith never ends, but I really just have friends.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Dar Williams Quote - Slavery doesn’t have any positives.

    Slavery doesn’t have any positives.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Dar Williams Quote - 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.

    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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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Dar Williams Quote - If you’re looking for can-do, earthy-crunchy attitude then you’ve got to go to Wisconsin.

    If you’re looking for can-do, earthy-crunchy attitude then you’ve got to go to Wisconsin.

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