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.
DAR WILLIAMS[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.
More Dar Williams Quotes
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They preach that I should save the world. They pray that I won’t do a better job of it.
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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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Slavery doesn’t have any positives.
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I have odometer readings, kids; all sorts of measurements of what I’ve been doing for the last 20 years. I get it. I get that it was a while ago.
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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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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 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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Guiding the ship takes more the your skill. It is the compass inside as the strength of your will.
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I’m just trying to be part of the movement that decentralizes and hopefully creates peace. By supporting smaller, democratic structures, you can effect change.
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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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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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I am happy to do political fundraisers. I always hope that my friends will be, too. It’s part of who you are and you shouldn’t feel ashamed of what you believe in.
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Therapy was the biggest romance of my life.
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The summer ends and we wonder who we are And there you go, my friends, with your boxes in your car And today I passed the high school, the river, the maple tree I passed the farms that made it
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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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