Guiding the ship takes more the your skill. It is the compass inside as the strength of your will.
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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If you’re looking for can-do, earthy-crunchy attitude then you’ve got to go to Wisconsin.
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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.
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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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The light that stopped the night felt like forgiveness.
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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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I 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.
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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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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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I really value people besides parents who nurture kids.
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A lot of the songs are pretty unmasked. If you listen to “As Cool As I Am,” it’s not all that different from what you were hearing from Ani DiFranco and some of the other indie women artists of the time. It was still in that context, still seen as folk music.
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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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When we learn about ourselves, we can evolve.
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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 where does magic come from? I think that magic’s in the learning.
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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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