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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The light that stopped the night felt like forgiveness.
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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’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 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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When we learn about ourselves, we can evolve.
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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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Milwaukee one of my favorite cites; I think Milwaukee is #1.
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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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I came out of that and said I don’t want to go back to feeling depressed. So I asked myself, what can I be optimistic about, in terms of the course of the planet? And I discovered there was no end to the optimism I felt.
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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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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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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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Now that I believe in God, I have an extra layer of saying I’ll write about what I write about and assume that I’m being offered the opportunity to illuminate something important. But when you think you are too important, you become some sort of fascist.
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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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