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Dar Williams [1967-0] American
Rank: 102
Musician, Singer-songwriter


Dar Williams is an American singer-songwriter specializing in pop folk. Hendrik Hertzberg of The New Yorker has described Williams as "one of America’s very best singer-songwriters."

Attitude, Forgiveness, Funny, Romantic



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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. Funny
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I'm becoming a professional nomad and enjoying that whole part of my life.
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Writing 'February' made me realize that breaking form is a way of letting the song be human.
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If you're looking for can-do, earthy-crunchy attitude then you've got to go to Wisconsin. Attitude
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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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Sometimes life gives us lessons sent in ridiculous packaging.
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Sometimes I see myself fine, sometimes I need a witness. And I like the whole truth, but there are nights I only need forgiveness. Forgiveness
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How I long to fall just a little bit, to dance out of the lines and stray from the light.
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Therapy was the biggest romance of my life. Romantic
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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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But social justice and the environment are very tied together in my head.
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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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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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Arizona is really cool but I couldn't stay there for too long.
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Milwaukee one of my favorite cites; I think Milwaukee is #1.
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And where does magic come from? I think that magic's in the learning.
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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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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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You always have to wrestle with chaos.
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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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The very best thing you can do is to try to write a song that has some sort of impact.
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I think music is another language.
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If a war has to happen, a war has to happen.
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I really value people besides parents who nurture kids.
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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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I have a sordid past.
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Being told that you are good at banter is like being told that you are a good person.
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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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A song versus an album is not like a scene versus a play.
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The first concert I saw was Cheryl Wheeler.
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