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Dar Williams

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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Choices Political Real
I went from having three little jobs that I strung together to being on the road full-time; having some savings that my managers told me to spend.
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Career Country Jobs
I have a sordid past.
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Happen Past Sordid
I 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.
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Cutting Family People Sensitive
[Mortal City ] was also the beginning of the reality of the fact that I was going to have little pieces of my personality identifying with all of these different parts of the country.
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Cities Country Reality
When we learn about ourselves, we can evolve.
DAR WILLIAMS

Bout Evolve Ourselves
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 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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Cover Real Song Up
They preach that I should save the world. They pray that I won’t do a better job of it.
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Jobs Praying World
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
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
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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Friday Night Songwriter Women
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
We all do the wrong thing. And then we have to wake up the next morning and live with the fact that we have done things that are wrong.
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Done Morning Up Wake
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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Friend Psychotherapy Society Straightforward
At this point, I feel like I have roots in a lot of places. I have friends who have put down roots, in Seattle and San Francisco and Portland, and I feel very close to them.
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Country People Portland Roots

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