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 WILLIAMSThrough 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
More Dar Williams Quotes
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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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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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If you’re looking for can-do, earthy-crunchy attitude then you’ve got to go to Wisconsin.
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Everyone has to decide how they’re going to appear in their lives, how they’re going to put themselves out there to the world.
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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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I have a sordid past.
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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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When we learn about ourselves, we can evolve.
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God looks like a guidance counselor, God’s got that smile. God says, ‘How could this be? That’s really odd I guess I’ll have to check my records, silly me, you know, I’m only God.’
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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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And you bring your words, But you’re just like them, You’re unprepared ‘Cause you don’t know the terrain
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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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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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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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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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