I was raised by parents who really admired the religious leaders of the left, as many 60s and 70s liberals did.
DAR WILLIAMSI am one of those sort of “lesser” types, those sensitive types, those people who wouldn’t have made it on their own if other people hadn’t helped them.
More Dar Williams Quotes
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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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If you’re lucky you find something that reflects you, Helps you feel your life, protects you, Cradles you and connects you to everything.
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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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I am happy to do political fundraisers. I always hope that my friends will be, too. It’s part of who you are and you shouldn’t feel ashamed of what you believe in.
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We have evolved to understand that language of power that’s taken too much.
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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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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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There’s always people who came 600 miles to hear the song you didn’t play.
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There was a lot of distance between the Dar of The Honesty Room and the Dar of Mortal City, so there was no attempt.
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I really value people besides parents who nurture kids.
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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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They preach that I should save the world. They pray that I won’t do a better job of it.
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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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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.
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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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