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Dar Williams
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: April 19
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Mount Kisco
New York
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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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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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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 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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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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We have evolved to understand that language of power that's taken too much.
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I have a sordid past.
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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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The light that stopped the night felt like forgiveness.
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A song versus an album is not like a scene versus a play.
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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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I think music is another language.
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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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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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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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And where does magic come from? I think that magic's in the learning.
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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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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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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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