For my 50th birthday I just want to make it all make sense [being exactly half introvert], and then a couple of weeks later do the blow-out with all my friends.
DAR WILLIAMSThings are important to you and then they recede within a day. That’s the only thing that keeps me from believing that there’s going to be any one organic big wave; although the Americana (music) thing has been happening for a while.
More Dar Williams Quotes
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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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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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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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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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There’s always people who came 600 miles to hear the song you didn’t play.
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[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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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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If you’re looking for can-do, earthy-crunchy attitude then you’ve got to go to Wisconsin.
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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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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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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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Slavery doesn’t have any positives.
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When we learn about ourselves, we can evolve.
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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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And where does magic come from? I think that magic’s in the learning.
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