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

Dar Williams

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Dar Williams
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: April 19
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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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Sometimes life gives us lessons sent in ridiculous packaging.
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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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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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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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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 have a sordid past.
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And the ones that know you so well are the ones that can swallow you whole.
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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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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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We have evolved to understand that language of power that's taken too much.
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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 very best thing you can do is to try to write a song that has some sort of impact.
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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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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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Go ahead, push your luck, find out how much love the world can hold.
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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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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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When we learn about ourselves, we can evolve.
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There's always people who came 600 miles to hear the song you didn't play.
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