Dar Williams Quotes - Page 4

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

  Dar Williams

  Religious, Government, Double Standard

  Source: progressive.org

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• 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.

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  Optimistic, Optimism, Feelings

  Source: progressive.org

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• 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.

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  Cutting, People, My Family

  Source: progressive.org

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• 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.

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  Believe, Thinking, Church

  Source: progressive.org

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• What we need to do is pull the rug out so billionaires in our country wake up one morning and say, wow, 80 percent of the country has a solar panel, and we can't make our billions anymore because other people are making millions, but not billions, on alternative energy that doesn't require war. Suddenly, the war-making machinery is not necessary.

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  Country, Morning, War

  Source: progressive.org

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• Why wouldn't you want to be the envy of your neighbors by being so good and so generous and so smart in how you use the power that you obviously have? That's my patriotism.

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  Smart, Envy, Use

  Source: progressive.org

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• Hegemony is not defined by rivers or conventional borders - it's dominance, it's influence. So we get to decide in our hearts, are we in Iraq to help restore something, or are we there to establish dominance? How can you torture people and say, well, that's just a few bad apples in our culture?

  Dar Williams

  Heart, Rivers, Iraq

  Source: progressive.org

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

  Dar Williams

  War, Differences, Would Be

  Source: www.progressive.org

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

  Dar Williams

  Kindness, Thinking, Hands

  Source: www.progressive.org

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

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  Taken, Too Much, Language

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• It's just that you don't have to bring it to every stage. You can do a fundraiser for people that you support. You don't necessarily have to talk about one thing or another when you're on your own.

  Dar Williams

  Support You, People, Stage

  Interview with Gregg Shapiro, chicago.gopride.com. November 3, 2016.

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• I am happy to do political fundraisers. I always hope that my friends will be, too. It's part of who you are and you shouldn't feel ashamed of what you believe in.

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  Believe, Political, Ashamed

  Interview with Gregg Shapiro, chicago.gopride.com. November 3, 2016.

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• There was this moment in 2003 when I was asked to do a fundraiser for someone who was speaking out against the Iraq war when nobody was. I said, "I will do a fundraiser for that guy." And then my friend John Hall, from the band Orleans...He ran for Congress in my district and won. I did a bunch of fundraisers for him.

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  War, Iraq, Guy

  Interview with Gregg Shapiro, chicago.gopride.com. November 3, 2016.

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• I think the music was speaking to that opening up of whose voice gets heard and how multidimensional that voice can be.

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  Thinking, Voice, Opening Up

  Interview with Gregg Shapiro, chicago.gopride.com. November 3, 2016.

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• I really lucked out with that song ["As Cool As I Am"]. Men were becoming much more comfortable with all the different facets and parts of their identity, including their gentler, funnier, sillier, nurturing parts. They started showing up. There was so much exploration of gender at that time. Women were showing up with the range of ways of being female in the world and men were showing up with the range of being male in the world.

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  Song, Men, Identity

  "Dar Williams returns to Mortal City". Interview with Gregg Shapiro, chicago.gopride.com. November 3, 2016.

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• A lot of men were also becoming more attuned and less afraid of women [in the nineties ].

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  Men, Becoming, Becoming More

  Source: chicago.gopride.com

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• The kind of organic wave, the way that waves move, and I'm not just talking about feminism, the way that a social movement might rise like a wave. It's harder to build any kind of wave now. Things are important to you and then they recede within a day. That's the only thing that keeps me from believing that there's going to be any one organic big wave; although the Americana (music) thing has been happening for a while.

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  Moving, Believe, Talking

  Interview with Gregg Shapiro, chicago.gopride.com. November 3, 2016.

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• A lot of the songs are pretty unmasked. If you listen to "As Cool As I Am," it's not all that different from what you were hearing from Ani DiFranco and some of the other indie women artists of the time. It was still in that context, still seen as folk music.

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  Song, Artist, Different

  Interview with Gregg Shapiro, chicago.gopride.com. November 3, 2016.

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• Just like my career, I've sung the same songs night after night in so many ways. It's always different because every space is different. I lost my mojo once. It was like Austin Powers. I don't know why or how, but I had to get it back. And I did.

  Dar Williams

  Song, Night, Space

  Interview with Gregg Shapiro, chicago.gopride.com. November 3, 2016.

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• There was one tour where I thought, "If I can't get this feeling back of being excited to be on the stage, then I will quit." Because I have friends who have dialed it in and I watch their concerts and shake my head. I'm sure the audience can tell, too.

  Dar Williams

  Feelings, Watches, Quitting

  Interview with Gregg Shapiro, chicago.gopride.com. November 3, 2016.

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• I went to Canada and played in this tiny bar where the windows were steaming up and everybody was so animated and singing along right there at the foot of the stage, looking up, and I got my mojo back .

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  Feet, Singing, Bars

  Interview with Gregg Shapiro, chicago.gopride.com. November 3, 2016.

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• For my 50th birthday I just want to make it all make sense [being exactly half introvert], and then a couple of weeks later do the blow-out with all my friends.

  Dar Williams

  Couple, Blow, 50th Birthday

  Source: chicago.gopride.com

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• There are a lot of people out there who are exactly half extrovert and half introvert and they love to be extroverts as long as they have enough time to go off and figure it all out.

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  Long, People, Enough Time

  Interview with Gregg Shapiro, chicago.gopride.com. November 3, 2016.

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• You know how people say they're either like a cat or a dog? I feel like a cat. I just want to be alone. Isn't that weird? It's a lot to take in.

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  Dog, Cat, People

  Interview with Gregg Shapiro, chicago.gopride.com. November 3, 2016.

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• Every once in a while I'll say something...I dropped the F-bomb early on in my career. There was this lesbian couple and they looked super-hip. One of them looked at me and shook her head, like "Don't do that." I think she was doing it to say, "It doesn't work." She didn't say anything but it was this cautionary moment. I knew it didn't work. There are just so many other words to choose from.

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  Couple, Thinking, Careers

  Interview with Gregg Shapiro, chicago.gopride.com. November 3, 2016.

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