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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
Composer
Guitarist
Musician
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Songwriter
Writer
Mount Kisco
New York
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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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What we need to do is pull the rug out so billionaires in our country wake up one morning and say, wow, 80 percent of the country has a solar panel, and we can't make our billions anymore because other people are making millions, but not billions, on alternative energy that doesn't require war. Suddenly, the war-making machinery is not necessary.
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I fear that to fall in love with you is to fall from a great and gruesome height.
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When people in government [make mistakes], they don't say, those people in the government. They say, we've got a problem to solve.
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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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I went to Canada and played in this tiny bar where the windows were steaming up and everybody was so animated and singing along right there at the foot of the stage, looking up, and I got my mojo back .
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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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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.
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I think music is another language.
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Go ahead, push your luck, find out how much love the world can hold.
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I'm becoming a professional nomad and enjoying that whole part of my life.
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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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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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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 the same as another concert.
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It's a collective truth that slavery is wrong, that child labor is wrong, that gross inequality is wrong. God didn't send it.
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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 Iraq war when nobody was. I said, I will do a fundraiser for that guy. And then my friend John Hall, from the band Orleans...He ran for Congress in my district and won. I did a bunch of fundraisers for him.
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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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We have evolved to understand that language of power that's taken too much.
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The very best thing you can do is to try to write a song that has some sort of impact.
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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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