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When we learn about ourselves, we can evolve.

Dar Williams

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Dar Williams
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: April 19
Composer
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Mount Kisco
New York
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I fear that to fall in love with you is to fall from a great and gruesome height.
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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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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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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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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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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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Go ahead, push your luck, find out how much love the world can hold.
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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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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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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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Guiding the ship takes more the your skill. It is the compass inside as the strength of your will.
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The rest of the songs on the album [Mortal City ] have spare arrangements on them. Steve [Miller], really loved that. He'd just come off of a project with someone who basically had to mask the fact that there were no songs there with production. He said, Oh, my God, you have real songs here!
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And the ones that know you so well are the ones that can swallow you whole.
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Slavery doesn't have any positives.
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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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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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We have evolved to understand that language of power that's taken too much.
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