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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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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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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 have a sordid past.
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I think music is another language.
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I came out of that and said I don't want to go back to feeling depressed. So I asked myself, what can I be optimistic about, in terms of the course of the planet? And I discovered there was no end to the optimism I felt.
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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'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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Sometimes life gives us lessons sent in ridiculous packaging.
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The light that stopped the night felt like forgiveness.
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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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The very best thing you can do is to try to write a song that has some sort of impact.
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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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Guiding the ship takes more the your skill. It is the compass inside as the strength of your will.
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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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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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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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There are a lot of people out there who are exactly half extrovert and half introvert and they love to be extroverts as long as they have enough time to go off and figure it all out.
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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 you bring your words, But you're just like them, You're unprepared 'Cause you don't know the terrain
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A song versus an album is not like a scene versus a play.
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