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.
DAR WILLIAMSI really lucked out with that song [“As Cool As I Am”]. Men were becoming much more comfortable with all the different facets and parts of their identity, including their gentler, funnier, sillier, nurturing parts. They started showing up.
More Dar Williams Quotes
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Milwaukee one of my favorite cites; I think Milwaukee is #1.
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There’s always people who came 600 miles to hear the song you didn’t play.
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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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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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I really value people besides parents who nurture kids.
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When we learn about ourselves, we can evolve.
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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 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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And where does magic come from? I think that magic’s in the learning.
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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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I fear that to fall in love with you is to fall from a great and gruesome height.
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Things 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.
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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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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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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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