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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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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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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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Sometimes I see myself fine, sometimes I need a witness. And I like the whole truth, but there are nights I only need forgiveness.
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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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Go ahead, push your luck, find out how much love the world can hold.
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And where does magic come from? I think that magic's in the learning.
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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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