Dar Williams

“Every day has one morning.”

— Dar Williams

I have a sordid past.

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She who loves last loves best.

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You always have to wrestle with chaos.

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I think music is another language.

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Slavery doesn't have any positives.

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And where does magic come from? I think that magic's in the learning.

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Arizona is really cool but I couldn't stay there for too long.

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If a war has to happen, a war has to happen.

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The biggest difference would be made if we don't have wars to begin with.

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A song versus an album is not like a scene versus a play.

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“And I will write this down / And then I will not be alone again”

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But social justice and the environment are very tied together in my head.

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Milwaukee one of my favorite cites; I think Milwaukee is #1.

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As I said in one of my songs, we're still abolishing slavery, but nobody says it's a good thing. Nobody justifies it.

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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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And you bring your words, But you're just like them, You're unprepared 'Cause you don't know the terrain

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I think the music was speaking to that opening up of whose voice gets heard and how multidimensional that voice can be.

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I try to be careful not to do single concerts where I fly out, do my show, turn around and go home.

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But I benefit from the taxes I pay because I know how to access the benefits of the taxes.

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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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I'm amazed at the adolescent nature of some of the religious fanatics in our government. And they're full of double standards.

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Just like my career, I've sung the same songs night after night in so many ways. It's always different because every space…

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There was this moment in 2003 when I was asked to do a fundraiser for someone who was speaking out against the…

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I went to Canada and played in this tiny bar where the windows were steaming up and everybody was so animated and…

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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…

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Empires are doomed. They become more diffuse, more broke, demagogues rule, and so I was just pointing out some similarities between past…

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I think we're coming to a place where we're saying all war is wrong. We might even learn something about the sensationalism…

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“And the ones that can know you so well are the ones that can swallow you whole. I have a good and…

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Sixties folk rock was my original muse and the folk audience-people who listen to music off the beaten track-fostered my career. I…

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There's a marketing scheme that tells you that pregnancy and child rearing will make you into a moron, that your kids are…

— Dar Williams

Some of us have such incredible things that can keep us from acting. We have the luxury of drinking such good wine,…

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I am one of those sort of "lesser" types, those sensitive types, those people who wouldn't have made it on their own…

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“The summer ends and we wonder who we are And there you go, my friends, with your boxes in your car And…

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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…

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What was nice about the nineties is that it was an example of music that responded to a desire of the times.…

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“Now when I was fifteen, oh I knew it was over The road to enchantment was not mine to take Cause lower…

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I started going out with one of my managers and he really grew me up in a lot of ways. He introduced…

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The light that stopped the night felt like forgiveness.

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There's always people who came 600 miles to hear the song you didn't play.

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