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I think music is another language.

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Dar Williams
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: April 19
Composer
Guitarist
Musician
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
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Mount Kisco
New York
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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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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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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 really value people besides parents who nurture kids.
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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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Slavery doesn't have any positives.
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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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It's just that you don't have to bring it to every stage. You can do a fundraiser for people that you support. You don't necessarily have to talk about one thing or another when you're on your own.
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And where does magic come from? I think that magic's in the learning.
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There's always people who came 600 miles to hear the song you didn't play.
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And the ones that know you so well are the ones that can swallow you whole.
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Why wouldn't you want to be the envy of your neighbors by being so good and so generous and so smart in how you use the power that you obviously have? That's my patriotism.
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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'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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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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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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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 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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