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.”
DAR WILLIAMSThey preach that I should save the world. They pray that I won’t do a better job of it.
More Dar Williams Quotes
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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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What happened on “As Cool As I Am” was, you know how in the ’90s, “the personal is political, the political is personal”? That was a really big thing.
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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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The best, most solid place to stand as you look at our present situation is on a foundation of history. The Roman Empire, the British Empire, and the Nazi empire all have things in common.
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The light that stopped the night felt like forgiveness.
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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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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.
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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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Every time you opt in to kindness Make one connection, used to divide us It echoes all over the world
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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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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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We have evolved to understand that language of power that’s taken too much.
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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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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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Guiding the ship takes more the your skill. It is the compass inside as the strength of your will.
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