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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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Dar Williams
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: April 19
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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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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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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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I fear that to fall in love with you is to fall from a great and gruesome height.
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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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They preach that I should save the world. They pray that I won't do a better job of it.
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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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When we learn about ourselves, we can evolve.
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