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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 very best thing you can do is to try to write a song that has some sort of impact.
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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 fear that to fall in love with you is to fall from a great and gruesome height.
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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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And where does magic come from? I think that magic's in the learning.
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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 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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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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And if I had a camera Showing all the light we give And showing where the light extends I'd give it to my friends
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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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And the ones that know you so well are the ones that can swallow you whole.
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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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I went from having three little jobs that I strung together to being on the road full-time having some savings that my managers told me to spend. You fly all over the country opening for these other people. You pay a publicist to get some press while you're establishing yourself and you will be solvent in this career forevermore.
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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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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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But I benefit from the taxes I pay because I know how to access the benefits of the taxes.
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Everyone has to decide how they're going to appear in their lives, how they're going to put themselves out there to the world.
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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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