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A lot of the songs are pretty unmasked. If you listen to “As Cool As I Am,” it’s not all that different from what you were hearing from Ani DiFranco and some of the other indie women artists of the time. It was still in that context, still seen as folk music.

Dar Williams

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.
DAR WILLIAMS

Bullshit Feelings Towns
We have evolved to understand that language of power that’s taken too much.
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Language Much Taken Too
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.
DAR WILLIAMS

Ashamed Believe Political
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 WILLIAMS

Fear Left never Right Swing
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.
DAR WILLIAMS

Career Country Jobs
And where does magic come from? I think that magic’s in the learning.
DAR WILLIAMS

Come Learning Magic Thinking
Therapy was the biggest romance of my life.
DAR WILLIAMS

Life Romance Therapy
I’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.
DAR WILLIAMS

Cities Fun Unique
Slavery doesn’t have any positives.
DAR WILLIAMS

Any Positives Slavery
A song versus an album is not like a scene versus a play.
DAR WILLIAMS

Albums Play Song
A lot of the songs are pretty unmasked. If you listen to “As Cool As I Am,” it’s not all that different from what you were hearing from Ani DiFranco and some of the other indie women artists of the time. It was still in that context, still seen as folk music.
DAR WILLIAMS

Artist Different Song
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.
DAR WILLIAMS

Appear Lives Themselves World
God looks like a guidance counselor, God’s got that smile. God says, ‘How could this be? That’s really odd I guess I’ll have to check my records, silly me, you know, I’m only God.’
DAR WILLIAMS

Looks Records Silly
I really value people besides parents who nurture kids.
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Kids Parent People
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.
DAR WILLIAMS

Believe Opportunity Writing
I am one of those sort of “lesser” types, those sensitive types, those people who wouldn’t have made it on their own if other people hadn’t helped them.
DAR WILLIAMS

Cutting Family People Sensitive

A lot of the songs are pretty unmasked. If you listen to “As Cool As I Am,” it’s not all that different from what you were hearing from Ani DiFranco and some of the other indie women artists of the time. It was still in that context, still seen as folk music.

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A lot of the songs are pretty unmasked. If you listen to “As Cool As I Am,” it’s not all that different from what you were hearing from Ani DiFranco and some of the other indie women artists of the time. It was still in that context, still seen as folk music.

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