Dar Williams Quotes

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

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#2. I have a sordid past.

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#3. God looks like a guidance counselor, God's got that smile. God says, 'How could this be? That's really odd I guess I'll have to check my records, silly me, you know, I'm only God.'

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#4. Sometimes life gives us lessons sent in ridiculous packaging.

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#5. I try to be careful not to do single concerts where I fly out, do my show, turn around and go home.

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#6. 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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#7. "Is it how she moves, or how she looks?" I say it's loneliness suspended to our own like grappling hooks, And as long as she's got noise, she's fine. But I could teach her how I learned to dance when the music's ended.

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#8. You'll almost encounter a superstition amongst musicians, people sort of go through strange rituals, what they need to do to write a song.

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#9. I fear that to fall in love with you is to fall from a great and gruesome height.

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#10. The very best thing you can do is to try to write a song that has some sort of impact.

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#11. I'm becoming a professional nomad and enjoying that whole part of my life.

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#12. How I long to fall just a little bit, to dance out of the lines and stray from the light.

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#13. Sometimes I see myself fine, sometimes I need a witness. And I like the whole truth, but there are nights I only need forgiveness.

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#14. And if I had a camera
Showing all the light we give
And showing where the light extends
I'd give it to my friends

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#15. But if you're looking to be spooked by really tall trees then you've got to go to Washington State.

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#16. If a war has to happen, a war has to happen.

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#17. But where do we come up with this notion of a woman in which the less space you take up, the more you're worth?

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#18. But I benefit from the taxes I pay because I know how to access the benefits of the taxes.

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#19. There's the wind And the rain And the mercy of the fallen Who say, "Hey, it's not my place To know what's right" There's the weak And the strong And the many stars that guide us We have some of them inside us

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#20. 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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#21. Guiding the ship takes more the your skill. It is the compass inside as the strength of your will.

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#22. They preach that I should save the world. They pray that I won't do a better job of it.

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#23. The first concert I saw was Cheryl Wheeler.

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#24. But social justice and the environment are very tied together in my head.

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#25. You always have to wrestle with chaos.

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#26. If you're looking for can-do, earthy-crunchy attitude then you've got to go to Wisconsin.

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#27. And where does magic come from? I think that magic's in the learning.

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#28. I was raised by parents who really admired the religious leaders of the left, as many 60s and 70s liberals did.

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#29. And I'll act like I have faith, and like that faith never ends, but I really just have friends.

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#30. Every time you opt in to kindness Make one connection, used to divide us It echoes all over the world

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#31. And I will write this down / And then I will not be alone again

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#32. 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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#33. There's always people who came 600 miles to hear the song you didn't play.

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#34. Sometimes life sends us lessons in ridiculous packaging.

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#35. 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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#36. and now I laugh at how the world changed me, and I think life chose me . . . after all.

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#37. Writing 'February' made me realize that breaking form is a way of letting the song be human.

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#38. Milwaukee one of my favorite cites; I think Milwaukee is #1.

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#39. 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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#40. Arizona is really cool but I couldn't stay there for too long.

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#41. 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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#42. All the things you treasure most will be the hardest won
I will watch you struggle long before the answers come
But I won't make it harder, I'll be there to cheer you on
I'll shine the light that guides you down the road you're walking on

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#43. The only word for love is everybody's name.

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#44. Therapy was the biggest romance of my life.

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#45. Go ahead, push your luck, find out how much love the world can hold.

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#46. The light that stopped the night felt like forgiveness.

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#47. I watch people throw aluminum cans in the trash, and I think of all the stories I've heard about the over-mining of aluminum, the erosion that happens, and the trees that fall down.

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#48. Every day has one morning.

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#49. Being told that you are good at banter is like being told that you are a good person.

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#50. 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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#51. A song versus an album is not like a scene versus a play.

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#52. I think music is another language.

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#53. I really value people besides parents who nurture kids.

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#54. The very best thing for music would be to live next door to a person who listens to loud music so you could mishear music everyday and mutate it to your own means.

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