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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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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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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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And the ones that know you so well are the ones that can swallow you whole.
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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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When we learn about ourselves, we can evolve.
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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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I really value people besides parents who nurture kids.
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You know how people say they're either like a cat or a dog? I feel like a cat. I just want to be alone. Isn't that weird? It's a lot to take in.
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And where does magic come from? I think that magic's in the learning.
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I'm becoming a professional nomad and enjoying that whole part of my life.
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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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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 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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I think we're coming to a place where we're saying all war is wrong. We might even learn something about the sensationalism we get caught up in with people like Donald Trump.
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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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The light that stopped the night felt like forgiveness.
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They preach that I should save the world. They pray that I won't do a better job of it.
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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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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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