Dar Williams Quotes - Page 2

The summer ends and we wonder who we are And there you go, my friends, with your boxes in your car And today I passed the high school, the river, the maple tree I passed the farms that made it Through the last days of the century And I knew that I was going to learn again Again, in this less hazy light I saw the fields beyond the fields The fields beyond the field

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

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

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!"

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

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

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

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.

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

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

And you bring your words, But you're just like them, You're unprepared 'Cause you don't know the terrain

I remember doing "As Cool As I Am" and Steve Miller, the producer, saying "I really hear a drum loop here. I want to play it for you." When I wrote it, I thought, "This isn't going to sound very folky. I don't think it's going to go with mandolins and banjos." Then he played the loop for me and it sounded right.

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

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?

The only word for love is everybody's name.

There was a lot of distance between the Dar of The Honesty Room and the Dar of Mortal City, so there was no attempt.

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

Therapy was the biggest romance of my life.

"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.

I would push for more production and Steve Miller would say, "Why do you want to have more production when you have real songs? You don't want to cover up the song."

If you're lucky you find something that reflects you, Helps you feel your life, protects you, Cradles you and connects you to everything.

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

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

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

...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.