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...we're all in a soup of trying to live by words, and trying to live by poetry. It's both humbling, and really flattering to know that my words are part of all that.

Dar Williams

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Dar Williams
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: April 19
Composer
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Singer-Songwriter
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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 where does magic come from? I think that magic's in the learning.
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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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A song versus an album is not like a scene versus a play.
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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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There's always people who came 600 miles to hear the song you didn't play.
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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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But I benefit from the taxes I pay because I know how to access the benefits of the taxes.
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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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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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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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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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I came out of that and said I don't want to go back to feeling depressed. So I asked myself, what can I be optimistic about, in terms of the course of the planet? And I discovered there was no end to the optimism I felt.
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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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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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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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The light that stopped the night felt like forgiveness.
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There's tons of anger and angst and peculiarity and eccentricity, and good towns know that that's okay. But towns that are kind of bullshit don't know what to do with all those feelings.
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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 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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