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I fear that to fall in love with you is to fall from a great and gruesome height.

Dar Williams

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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Artist Different Song
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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Leader Parent Religious
When we learn about ourselves, we can evolve.
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Bout Evolve Ourselves
If you’re looking for can-do, earthy-crunchy attitude then you’ve got to go to Wisconsin.
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Attitude Crunchy Wisconsin
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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Come Notion Space
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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Friday Nice Night
I really value people besides parents who nurture kids.
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Kids Parent People
Through the last days of the century And I knew that I was going to learn again Again, in this less hazy light I saw the fields beyond the fields The fields beyond the field
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Again Beyond Century Field Learn
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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Look Moment One Shook Work
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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Child Children Labor Slavery
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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Choice Make Political Time
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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Cities Distance Honesty
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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Fear Left never Right Swing
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.”
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Play Sound Thinking
Guiding the ship takes more the your skill. It is the compass inside as the strength of your will.
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Compass Ships Skills
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.
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Dialed Feelings Quitting Watches

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