Dar Williams Quotes - Page 3

The first concert I saw was Cheryl Wheeler.

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

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.

The biggest difference would be made if we don't have wars to begin with.

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

I have a sordid past.

I think music is another language.

I just think the reassurance and the steadiness and the hands-on kindness can make a huge difference.

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

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

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

We have evolved to understand that language of power that's taken too much.

Youll almost encounter a superstition amongst musicians, people sort of go through strange rituals, what they need to do to write a song.

It's a collective truth that slavery is wrong, that child labor is wrong, that gross inequality is wrong. God didn't send it.

I think we're coming to a place where we're saying all war is wrong. We might even learn something about the sensationalism we get caught up in with people like Donald Trump.

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.

When people in government [make mistakes], they don't say, those people in the government. They say, we've got a problem to solve.

As I said in one of my songs, we're still abolishing slavery, but nobody says it's a good thing. Nobody justifies it.

In terms of our democracy, we are sort of shrugging our shoulders and saying, oh dear, Guantánamo, that's so awful, that's so awful, but it's here. The pendulum usually swings from left to right and then right to left, but there are so many people in power who have taken the pendulum and just pinned it to the right that there is a fear that it's never going to swing back.

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.

Now that I believe in God, I have an extra layer of saying I'll write about what I write about and assume that I'm being offered the opportunity to illuminate something important. But when you think you are too important, you become some sort of fascist.

I'm amazed at the adolescent nature of some of the religious fanatics in our government. And they're full of double standards.

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.

I am one of those sort of "lesser" types, those sensitive types, those people who wouldn't have made it on their own if other people hadn't helped them. A straightforward capitalist society would've cut them off and let them die. So I was saved by my friends and by my family and by people who cared about me, and by modern psychotherapy that cared about women.

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.