Dar Williams Quotes (24 Quotes)

I'm thinking about where we are right now in history. The other common theme to this record is that the songs all put stuff I find important out on the table. Less metaphor and more me.

That's what I aspire to, ... Pete Seeger is the one who writes the songs that unite people.

I'm just holding up mirrors at interesting places, I'm trying to capture life at strange angles.

But I live and I know that I burn as I grow.

And there's a sunset over the mountainsI shout my scorn to the splendorous skyFor how does this light compare to all the world's suffering.

What you do is you build yourself as an artist according to what an audience says about you, as opposed to just submitting a demo tape to someplace and letting a record company take it from there.

I realized I was writing a lot of songs about interconnectedness,

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

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.

But truth is just like time, it catches up, and it just keeps going.

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

Am I the habit you're too tired to break I want you to love me with every step you take.

There's a marketing scheme that tells you that pregnancy and child rearing will make you into a moron, that your kids are only happy when you're buying them stuff. It's hard being a parent, but I laugh a lot and smile a lot and really enjoy it. The ratio of laughter to sadness is higher. There's part of me that wants to broadcast that. Parenting only affirmed what I already cared about, and that's good.

Well I love the way the world is your gardenAnd you plant your seeds and you let them growAnd you take things out of the ground just likeYou take what comes, but you never know.

Therapy was the biggest romance of my life.

And the only word for love is everybody's nameAnd that will always stayIt happens every day.

And I build my peace with strength, that's the best weapon you've got.

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

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.

So the Christians and the Pagans sit together at the tableFinding faith and common ground the best that they were able.

The green world was . . . unpredictable and chaotic. It was an unmediated place literally represented by the forest, the wilderness, where you learned things you don't necessarily want to know about yourself.

I'll keep you wondering what time I'm arriving. You'll drive me crazy with your backseat driving. And I'll talk in my sleep, and you'll steal all the covers. We'll argue it out, and we'll call ourselves lovers. And I'll stay in my body, and you'll stay in your own. Cause we know that we're born and we're dying alone.

Even a good love song can sort of awaken people. The way we travel and meet one another at the crossroads is important.

Sometimes life gives us lessons sent in ridiculous packaging.