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They preach that I should save the world. They pray that I won't do a better job of it.
Dar Williams
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Dar Williams
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: April 19
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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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Why wouldn't you want to be the envy of your neighbors by being so good and so generous and so smart in how you use the power that you obviously have? That's my patriotism.
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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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If you're lucky you find something that reflects you, Helps you feel your life, protects you, Cradles you and connects you to everything.
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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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And the ones that know you so well are the ones that can swallow you whole.
Dar Williams
Sometimes life gives us lessons sent in ridiculous packaging.
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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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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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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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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 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!
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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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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 think music is another language.
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I really value people besides parents who nurture kids.
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Slavery doesn't have any positives.
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A song versus an album is not like a scene versus a play.
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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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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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