When we learn about ourselves, we can evolve.
DAR WILLIAMSI’ve watched towns and cities evolve and become very resilient, and fun, and unique, and prosperous on their own terms. And the secret is bridging. It’s when the local church has a fun clothing swap fundraiser with a temple, and then the next year they bring in the mosque.
More Dar Williams Quotes
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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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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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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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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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Every time you opt in to kindness Make one connection, used to divide us It echoes all over the world
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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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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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Slavery doesn’t have any positives.
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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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I fear that to fall in love with you is to fall from a great and gruesome height.
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And where does magic come from? I think that magic’s in the learning.
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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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But where do we come up with this notion of a woman in which the less space you take up, the more you’re worth?
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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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Therapy was the biggest romance of my life.
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