Quote

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.

Dar Williams

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Dar Williams
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: April 19
Composer
Guitarist
Musician
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Songwriter
Writer
Mount Kisco
New York
Dorothy Snowden Williams
Dorothy Snowden Dar Williams
Stage
Support
Talk
Another
Thing
Every
People
Necessarily
Bring

More quotes by Dar Williams

Image
If you're lucky you find something that reflects you, Helps you feel your life, protects you, Cradles you and connects you to everything.
Dar Williams
Image
I have a sordid past.
Dar Williams
Image
I'm amazed at the adolescent nature of some of the religious fanatics in our government. And they're full of double standards.
Dar Williams
Image
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.
Dar Williams
Image
And you bring your words, But you're just like them, You're unprepared 'Cause you don't know the terrain
Dar Williams
Image
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.
Dar Williams
Image
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.
Dar Williams
Image
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.
Dar Williams
Image
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.
Dar Williams
Image
But I benefit from the taxes I pay because I know how to access the benefits of the taxes.
Dar Williams
Image
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.
Dar Williams
Image
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.
Dar Williams
Image
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.
Dar Williams
Image
The funny thing is musicians often love to go to see visual art because you've got all these pictures to turn into metaphors.
Dar Williams
Image
Sometimes life gives us lessons sent in ridiculous packaging.
Dar Williams
Image
Sometimes I see myself fine, sometimes I need a witness. And I like the whole truth, but there are nights I only need forgiveness.
Dar Williams
Image
When we learn about ourselves, we can evolve.
Dar Williams
Image
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.
Dar Williams
Image
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.
Dar Williams
Image
It's a collective truth that slavery is wrong, that child labor is wrong, that gross inequality is wrong. God didn't send it.
Dar Williams