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.
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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There’s always people who came 600 miles to hear the song you didn’t play.
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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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We have evolved to understand that language of power that’s taken too much.
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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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When we learn about ourselves, we can evolve.
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Milwaukee one of my favorite cites; I think Milwaukee is #1.
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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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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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You fly all over the country opening for these other people. You pay a publicist to get some press while you’re establishing yourself and you will be solvent in this career forevermore.
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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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[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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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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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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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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