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And the ones that know you so well are the ones that can swallow you whole.

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
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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.
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I'm becoming a professional nomad and enjoying that whole part of my life.
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We have evolved to understand that language of power that's taken too much.
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The best, most solid place to stand as you look at our present situation is on a foundation of history. The Roman Empire, the British Empire, and the Nazi empire all have things in common.
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When we learn about ourselves, we can evolve.
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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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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 think music is another language.
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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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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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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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Slavery doesn't have any positives.
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The light that stopped the night felt like forgiveness.
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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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There's always people who came 600 miles to hear the song you didn't 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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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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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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Guiding the ship takes more the your skill. It is the compass inside as the strength of your will.
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