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 WILLIAMSGuiding the ship takes more the your skill. It is the compass inside as the strength of your will.
More Dar Williams Quotes
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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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I have odometer readings, kids; all sorts of measurements of what I’ve been doing for the last 20 years. I get it. I get that it was a while ago.
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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.
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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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If you’re looking for can-do, earthy-crunchy attitude then you’ve got to go to Wisconsin.
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And where does magic come from? I think that magic’s in the learning.
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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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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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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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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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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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I really value people besides parents who nurture kids.
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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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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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