The very best thing you can do is to try to write a song that has some sort of impact. — Dar Williams Copy Share Image
There's always people who came 600 miles to hear the song you didn't play. — Dar Williams Copy Share Image
Writing 'February' made me realize that breaking form is a way of letting the song be human. — Dar Williams Copy Share Image
As I said in one of my songs, we're still abolishing slavery, but nobody says it's a good thing. Nobody justifies it. — Dar Williams Copy Share Image
You'll almost encounter a superstition amongst musicians, people sort of go through strange rituals, what they need to do to write a… — Dar Williams Copy Share Image
I would push for more production and Steve Miller would say, "Why do you want to have more production when you have… — Dar Williams Copy Share Image
Just like my career, I've sung the same songs night after night in so many ways. It's always different because every space… — Dar Williams Copy Share Image
Mortal City was really influenced by geography. [The song] "The Ocean" is the Pacific Northwest. Southern California and New York also figure… — Dar Williams Copy Share Image
I remember doing "As Cool As I Am" and Steve Miller, the producer, saying "I really hear a drum loop here. I… — Dar Williams Copy Share Image
A lot of the songs are pretty unmasked. If you listen to "As Cool As I Am," it's not all that different… — Dar Williams Copy Share Image
I really lucked out with that song ["As Cool As I Am"]. Men were becoming much more comfortable with all the different… — Dar Williams Copy Share Image
The rest of the songs on the album [Mortal City ] have spare arrangements on them. Steve [Miller], really loved that. He'd… — Dar Williams Copy Share Image
Youll almost encounter a superstition amongst musicians, people sort of go through strange rituals, what they need to do to write a… — Dar Williams Copy Share Image
“So I'll keep you wondering what time I'm arriving And you'll drive me crazy with your backseat driving And I'll talk in my sleep… — Dar Williams Copy Share Image
There's a marketing scheme that tells you that pregnancy and child rearing will make you into a moron, that your kids are only happy… — Dar Williams Copy Share Image
I remember doing "As Cool As I Am" and Steve Miller, the producer, saying "I really hear a drum loop here. I want to… — Dar Williams Copy Share Image
I went to Canada and played in this tiny bar where the windows were steaming up and everybody was so animated and singing along… — Dar Williams Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
For my 50th birthday I just want to make it all make sense [being exactly half introvert], and then a couple of weeks later… — Dar Williams Copy Share Image
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… — Dar Williams Copy Share Image
But I benefit from the taxes I pay because I know how to access the benefits of the taxes. — Dar Williams Copy Share Image
The only I would say is a little different is when I know my parents are in the audience. That's never going to be… — Dar Williams Copy Share Image
It's just that you don't have to bring it to every stage. You can do a fundraiser for people that you support. You don't… — Dar Williams Copy Share Image
![“Mortal City was really influenced by geography. [The song] "The Ocean" is the Pacific Northwest. Southern California and New York also figure into songs, and Iowa. "February" is very much about New England. "Mortal City" is Philadelphia. The whole album is this anthropomorphized landscape where…” quote by Dar Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/fd2/dar-williams-3902_albums_mortal-city-was-really-influenced-by-geo_2547350.jpg)
![“I really lucked out with that song ["As Cool As I Am"]. Men were becoming much more comfortable with all the different facets and parts of their identity, including their gentler, funnier, sillier, nurturing parts. They started showing up. There was so much exploration of gender at that time…” quote by Dar Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/246/dar-williams-3902_becoming_i-really-lucked-out-with-that-song-as-co_352145.jpg)
![“The rest of the songs on the album [Mortal City ] have spare arrangements on them. Steve [Miller], really loved that. He'd just come off of a project with someone who basically had to mask the fact that there were no songs there with production. He said, "Oh, my God, you have real songs here!"” quote by Dar Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/ac2/dar-williams-3902_albums_the-rest-of-the-songs-on-the-album-morta_1471671.jpg)
![“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.” quote by Dar Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/723/dar-williams-3902_50th-birthday_for-my-50th-birthday-i-just-want-to-make_214165.jpg)
