There was one tour where I thought, “If I can’t get this feeling back of being excited to be on the stage, then I will quit.” Because I have friends who have dialed it in and I watch their concerts and shake my head. I’m sure the audience can tell, too.
DAR WILLIAMSWhat 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.
More Dar Williams Quotes
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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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[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.
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There’s always people who came 600 miles to hear the song you didn’t play.
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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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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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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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When we learn about ourselves, we can evolve.
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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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Milwaukee one of my favorite cites; I think Milwaukee is #1.
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I have a sordid past.
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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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Guiding the ship takes more the your skill. It is the compass inside as the strength of your will.
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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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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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And I’ll act like I have faith, and like that faith never ends, but I really just have friends.
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