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Sometimes life gives us lessons sent in ridiculous packaging.
Dar Williams
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Dar Williams
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: April 19
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Mount Kisco
New York
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In the laughing times we know that we are lucky, and in the quiet times we know that we are blessed. And we will not be alone.
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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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At this point, I feel like I have roots in a lot of places. I have friends who have put down roots, in Seattle and San Francisco and Portland, and I feel very close to them.
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There are a lot of people out there who are exactly half extrovert and half introvert and they love to be extroverts as long as they have enough time to go off and figure it all out.
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There's always people who came 600 miles to hear the song you didn't play.
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A song versus an album is not like a scene versus a play.
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The funny thing is musicians often love to go to see visual art because you've got all these pictures to turn into metaphors.
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The best, most solid place to stand as you look at our present situation is on a foundation of history. The Roman Empire, the British Empire, and the Nazi empire all have things in common.
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I would push for more production and Steve Miller would say, Why do you want to have more production when you have real songs? You don't want to cover up the song.
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...we're all in a soup of trying to live by words, and trying to live by poetry. It's both humbling, and really flattering to know that my words are part of all that.
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Sometimes I see myself fine, sometimes I need a witness. And I like the whole truth, but there are nights I only need forgiveness.
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Every once in a while I check and I say, do I still believe in God? And the answer is absolutely yes. And then I think, I suppose I should go to church now. But after going to so many churches in my life and trying to go with the flow with so many denominations, Eastern and Western, I don't really feel I need to go to church at all.
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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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Slavery doesn't have any positives.
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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.
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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. 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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Go ahead, push your luck, find out how much love the world can hold.
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I would encourage people to bridge broadly and creatively in their communities, not just because that creates the most fun and resiliency, but also because it creates the most points of access for people to be part of the community, which is what democracy is at its best.
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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 definitely don't want to abandon the genre but I also need to make sure I'm Dar Williams first.
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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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