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There's always people who came 600 miles to hear the song you didn't play.
Dar Williams
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Dar Williams
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: April 19
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Mount Kisco
New York
Dorothy Snowden Williams
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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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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 light that stopped the night felt like 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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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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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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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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The very best thing you can do is to try to write a song that has some sort of impact.
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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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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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I would encourage people to bridge broadly and creatively in their communities, not just because that creates the most fun and resiliency, but also because it creates the most points of access for people to be part of the community, which is what democracy is at its best.
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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 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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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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When we learn about ourselves, we can evolve.
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Slavery doesn't have any positives.
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At this point, I feel like I have roots in a lot of places. I have friends who have put down roots, in Seattle and San Francisco and Portland, and I feel very close to them.
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When people in government [make mistakes], they don't say, those people in the government. They say, we've got a problem to solve.
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I have odometer readings, kids all sorts of measurements of what I've been doing for the last 20 years. I get it. I get that it was a while ago.
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And the ones that know you so well are the ones that can swallow you whole.
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