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The very best thing you can do is to try to write a song that has some sort of impact.
Dar Williams
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Dar Williams
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: April 19
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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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I fear that to fall in love with you is to fall from a great and gruesome height.
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When we learn about ourselves, we can evolve.
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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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And where does magic come from? I think that magic's in the learning.
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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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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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