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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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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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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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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 you bring your words, But you're just like them, You're unprepared 'Cause you don't know the terrain
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Sometimes life gives us lessons sent in ridiculous packaging.
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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 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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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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They preach that I should save the world. They pray that I won't do a better job of it.
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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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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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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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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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The only I would say is a little different is when I know my parents are in the audience. That's never going to be the same as another concert.
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If you're lucky you find something that reflects you, Helps you feel your life, protects you, Cradles you and connects you to everything.
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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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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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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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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'm becoming a professional nomad and enjoying that whole part of my life.
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