The pendulum usually swings from left to right and then right to left, but there are so many people in power who have taken the pendulum and just pinned it to the right that there is a fear that it’s never going to swing back.
DAR WILLIAMSAnd where does magic come from? I think that magic’s in the learning.
More Dar Williams Quotes
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There’s tons of anger and angst and peculiarity and eccentricity, and good towns know that that’s okay. But towns that are kind of bullshit don’t know what to do with all those feelings.
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I have a sordid past.
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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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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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If you’re looking for can-do, earthy-crunchy attitude then you’ve got to go to Wisconsin.
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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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There was a lot of distance between the Dar of The Honesty Room and the Dar of Mortal City, so there was no attempt.
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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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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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A song versus an album is not like a scene versus a play.
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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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Every once in a while I’ll say something…I dropped the F-bomb early on in my career. There was this lesbian couple and they looked super-hip.
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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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All the things you treasure most will be the hardest won I will watch you struggle long before the answers come But I won’t make it harder, I’ll be there to cheer you on I’ll shine the light that guides you down the road you’re walking on
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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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